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Expert: - 7/2/2006


Question
How do you reselect a selection in Photoshop CS2? I just apple-
click on a layer in CS but can't do that in CS2. The only way I can
do it is by the history. But after I close the history is gone. What
am I doing wrong. If I apple-click, it does nothing.

Answer
Hi Joanne,

I don't have CS2 -- I'm still using CS -- but from everything I've read, you're not doing anything wrong. The software seems to have a lot of little changes like this.

Try this: Hold down the Command (Apple) key, and instead of clicking on the layer itself, like you would in Photoshop CS, click instead on the layer's eye icon (shown below).

http://little-works.com/all_experts/eye.gif


If that doesn't work, please post back and we'll figure it out -- but from what I've read from other users, this is the fix.

Hope this helps!
Lisa

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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.

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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.

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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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