In Photoshop CS they had the BEST option for selecting an item on a particular layer. All you had to do was move your cursor over the layer (say Layer 1) in the layers panel, hold down the ctrl key, and right click in order to select the item on that layer.
IS THERE a way to do that in Photoshop CS4? I’ve been dying trying to find it but haven’t found anything. Please help!
Please don’t tell me they got rid of it as that was a huge component of my productivity. I can’t just select the magic wand and select the item. That SUCKS! I don’t want any extra steps - just one! I want my keyboard shortcut back.
it’s the same but it has always been CTRL + LEFT CLICK, not RIGHT CLICK, or I never tried right click, but left click still works with CTRL, have you tried??
EDIT: I still have CS3, sorry, I don’t know about CS4
no, on CS3 CTRL + left click works on selecting (like select tool) the outline of the layer, but you need to click within the little image of the layer, not on the name or elsewhere, right in the tiny image. Try it again CTRL + Click, works for me on CS3
look here, each time I press CTRL and when the mouse cursor is on the tiny image the mouse pointer changes, but not elsewhere than the tiny image: http://screencast.com/t/kCqU40Ots
I am having the same problem, but I don’t know if this applies to the Mac version. Holding the command key (generally has the same functions as ctrl did for PCs) + click doesn’t select. Ideas?? Thanks!
