Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 218
Alt-click Windows or Option-click Mac OS in, Choose Palette Options from the Layers palette
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208 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers • Drag through the eye column to show or hide multiple layers or layer effects. You can drag through the eye column next to the layers or layer sets to show or hide them. You can also drag through the eye column next to layer effects applied to a layer to show or hide them. • Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the eye icon for a layer to display just that layer. Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) in the eye column again to redisplay all the layers. Only visible layers are printed. Making layers temporarily invisible can improve performance. Note: You can make the active layer invisible. Keep in mind, however, that changes still affect the layer. To select a layer: Do one of the following: • In the Layers palette, click a layer or layer set to make it active. • Select the move tool ( ), right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the image, and choose the layer you want from the context menu. The context menu lists all the layers that contain pixels under the current pointer location. (For information on selecting layers interactively with the move tool, see "Moving selections and layers within an image" on page 149.) The name of the active layer appears in the title bar of the image window, and a paintbrush ( ) appears next to the layer in the Layers palette. To change the display of layer thumbnails: 1 Choose Palette Options from the Layers palette menu. 2 Select a display option: • Click a thumbnail size. Smaller thumbnails reduce the space required by the palette-helpful when you're working on smaller monitors. • Click None to turn off the display of thumbnails. 3 Click OK. Layer sets do not have thumbnails. To change the transparency display: You can specify how transparent areas of a document are displayed while you are editing it. 1 Do one of the following: • (Photoshop) Choose Edit > Preferences > Transparency & Gamut. • (ImageReady) Choose Edit > Preference > Transparency. By default, the transparent areas of a document appear as a checkerboard pattern. 2 For Grid Size, choose a new size for the pattern. Choose None to show the transparent areas in the layer as white. 3 For Grid Colors, choose an option: • Light, Medium, or Dark to specify a gray pattern. • Any other color from the list to display the checkerboard in that color. • Custom to choose a color that does not appear in the list. Then click either of the color selection boxes to specify a custom color.
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