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I have been using CS for quite awhile and just installed CS2. There is something that is annoying to me and I'm still assuming I'm just not finding the "right button".
I have been used to holding ctrl down (Windows) and clicking on the layer to activate the layer so that I do what I want to only that layer. With CS2 the only way I have found to do that is go up to the menu and click "load selection".
Do you know if there is a shortcut, so to speak, for loading the selection? I'm ready to go back to CS if I can't figure this out.
Thanks very much for being willing to help!
Hi Linda Joy,
I'm way behind the times, as I haven't upgraded to CS2 (yet)! But I did some looking and found that in order for you to load layer content as a selection in CS2, you need to control-click the thumbnail icon for the layer in the layers palette, rather than control-clicking the layer itself, like we're used to doing. (On a Mac it'd be command-click.)
Try that and see if it works, and if it doesn't let me know.
Hope this helps!
Lisa
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LizaL
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I've used Photoshop since the release of version 2. I taught college commercial art and graphic design for 10 years, and within that realm, taught Photoshop at every level, and with each successive product upgrade. My experience with Photoshop is thus extensive and well-rounded, from photo retouching to color adjustment to incorporating Photoshop and ImageReady into Web design. I am primarily a Mac user (since 1985), but am also PC-savvy.
Experience
I've been a graphic designer for 22 years, was a national magazine art director, a designer for the Department of Defense, a college art instructor, and have my own freelance Web and graphic design business, LittleWorks (www.little-works.com). I've also worked for several printing companies, in both prepress and art.
Awards and Honors
PICA award (Printing Industry of the Carolinas Award for the design of a media kit that accompanied a magazine I was art directing at the time)
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