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madguitaristltd
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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Location: Oxnard, CA
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 Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject: Grouping Layers. |
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How do I do it?
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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What version of PS are you using? And by "grouping" do you mean linking? |
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Gallo_Pinto
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Location: BC, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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Grouping and linking are different.
Linking is simply attaching layers ao that they will move and scale as one, yet are individually editable. This is done by selecting a layer in the palete, then clicking in the second column of the palette on any other layer. these two layers will now both have a link symbol in that column. In cs2 it's different,yu must shift-select all layers you want to link, then click link in the lower left of the palete.
Grouping is like using one layer to create a clipping mask for another. Simply alt-click on the line between the two layers. Any contents of the upper layer that are not covering the lower are made invisible.
hope it helps. I know I'm bad at explaining this stuff. I learned about grouping when I asked about it in datameister's lightsaber tutorial a few weeks ago.
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madguitaristltd
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks that explains it. Yea I am doing a lightsaber tut and they said to group two layers and I had thought about linking but that didnt work.
PC CS ver. 8.0 by the way.
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Gallo_Pinto
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Is that the tut on this forum? if you'd read down a bit further, you would have seen me ask about the cloads layers, and datameister explain it.
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crewsypix
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
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Location: Douglasville, GA
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I am not doing the lightsaber tut but would like to know what grouping is for. The purpose of grouping.
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Gallo_Pinto
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Gallo_Pinto wrote: | | Grouping is like using one layer to create a clipping mask for another |
uh, yeah, what that guy said. hey wait, that was me!!
or, maybe, in better words, when yu group two layers, the top layer will only effect the layer directly beneath it.
try it: draw two blobs on two layers, so that they overlap. then group them.
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crewsypix
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okay, thanks. I was trying it with a collage I had made and all it did was make one layer dissappear. I just did it again with just blobs and a transparent background and it worked. If I filled the background with color, it didn't work.
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Gallo_Pinto
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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It's the same effect as if you control-clicked on the lower layer, inverted the selection and pressed delete on the uper layer. Obviously, if the lower layer was completely full, this would do nothing. Also obviously, if the layers you groued in your collage didn't overlap, nothing would happen.
Another experiment to help you undertsand: after grouping two layers, grab the upper one and move it around. An interesting point, layer styles applied to the lower act as if the two layers had been merged.
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