Manage Your Layers More Efficiently With Photoshop CS6

Manage Your Layers More Efficiently With Photoshop CS6

on Mar 22nd 2012 with 20 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS6
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 2 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 2 of 29 in the Introduction to Photoshop CS6 Session
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Designers often work with PSD files that include hundreds, if not, thousands of layers. Managing those layers was a hassle in previous versions of Photoshop. In Photoshop CS6 however, the Photoshop team has given us some tools to help us manage our layers more efficiently. In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series, we will explain how to work with the new Layer Panel, and what new features and tweaks that you can expect. Let’s take a look!

 
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  • http://www.brandonhalliburton.com Brandon Halliburton

    I am still on CS4. I might just skip CS5 and go straight to 6! I am liking what I am seeing.

    • http://hexagoncircle.com/ Ryan

      I’m also still working with CS4. I think 6 is giving me plenty of reasons to finally upgrade.

      • http://thomasdobber.nl Thomas Dobber

        Bad news for both if you guys (if you pay for you software), apparently it’s only possible to get CS6 if you already own CS5

      • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
        Author

        That’s not true. You can upgrade from CS3 and CS4 until December 2012.

  • http://whysodumb.com Dhruv

    Managing layers has always been difficult. And the technique of renaming the layers is so tiresome when you got 100 layers with you. CS6 is certainly making it all hassle free. Thanks :)

  • Alvaro

    Come on!

    The beta was released couple hours ago and you are already making tutorials for it?? Is a Beta, and it has some bugs, so please, wait just a bit to make this posts….

    • http://www.samuelorf.com Samuel Orf

      A lot of people are excited to see these features in action. The beta is available to everyone and this tutorial’s information will be relevant with the release version. Keep it coming!

      • http://graphicriver.net/user/Giallo?ref=Giallo Giallo

        I agree with Samuel, then if something not work properly I doubt will be showed in a tutorial..

  • http://www.goleansixsigma.com Ben

    Wow, that new interface is looking sharp. Didn’t even know the beta was out yet, so thanks for the info and tip on managing layers!

  • http://graphicriver.net/user/Giallo?ref=Giallo Giallo

    yessss

  • http://www.psd-dude.com John

    CS6 has really nice features, I might also skip CS5 and go straight to CS6 :)

  • http://www.pricenfees.com Rahul

    Photoshop CS 6 is exactly what we designers dreamed about. Adobe paid attention to each and every detail to make our graphic designing work more efficient than before.

  • Mohammad Shah Faisal

    I looking great

  • http://designeranil.x10.mx anil

    This new option is just amazing

  • Holman

    Really interesting improvements!!

    Thanks for share!

  • Zen8

    i am using the beta version it is so awesome !! blurs, lighting effects, charactere style and so much more !!! wow !!!oh and the 3D as improved a lot it makes it so much better to achieve basic 3D renders ..
    the layer search engine is incredibly usefull !! cs6 is the sh**

  • Johnson Fooey

    Brief, superficial presentation doesn’t really qualify as a “tutorial.” You could learn the same stuff by reading an Adobe ad.

  • Farielle

    Great! A beautiful way to turn a photoshop creation into an unique and practical work of art!

  • Tim

    Unfortunately, the layers panel has a very annoying bug (which still isn’t fixed by Adobe). If you have layer thumbnails turned on and you have a lot of layers, when you nudge layers with the arrow keys, Photoshop will try to redraw all the layer thumbnails in the panel, thus slowing it to a crawl.
    CS6 has lots of bugs in it. People say it is the best Photoshop ever, but I think it is probably the worst. This is even more of a disappointment when you consider that Adobe released it in beta for people to try out first and should have been able to find ALL of the large bugs such as this before releasing the final product. Even more discomforting than that is Adobe has STILL not fixed these huge bugs and it’s been about 5 months now since CS6 was released. Adobe knows about these issues.

  • BLack-Cat

    most worse tutorial i hav ever seen…