Photoshop help...

2006-10-10 14:35:53

#1

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6701|Devon, England

ok, title was actually ment to be imageready help...

ok, does anyone know if there is a quick way to link all layers in Photoshop CS/the imageready that comes with photoshop cs?

cos i'm at the minute making a movie gif sig, and resizing is a bitch as i have to manually link all layers, and linking them is boring and time wasting.

so, does anyone know if there is a quicker way of doing this?

Last edited by FFLink13 (2006-10-10 14:42:25)

2006-10-10 15:03:20

#2

Use0fWeapons: Get repairs here; +60|6543|Doncaster - UK

a bit confusing, but i think you want to apply a change in one frame across all frames?

Is so there is a right click option to 'match' (i think) then you can apply it to all frames before or after.

I hope this is helpful, and what you wanted.

Best of luck.
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2006-10-10 15:04:41

#3

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6532|...

FFLink13 wrote:
ok, title was actually ment to be imageready help...

ok, does anyone know if there is a quick way to link all layers in Photoshop CS/the imageready that comes with photoshop cs?

cos i'm at the minute making a movie gif sig, and resizing is a bitch as i have to manually link all layers, and linking them is boring and time wasting.

so, does anyone know if there is a quicker way of doing this?

click the link icon on each layer then control+e ?

if you want to flatten Image->flatten layers

2006-10-10 15:26:32

#4

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6701|Devon, England

https://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/FFLink13/scrn38.jpg

ok, see the layer bit? yeh, i need a quicker way of linking all the layers together, rather than clicking each one, surely thre must be an easier way of doing this?

2006-10-10 15:40:57

#5

CITYHUNT3R: Member; +15|6478|Winnipeg

If you want to resize it, just change the canvas/image size.

Image > Image Size or Canvas Size

2006-10-10 15:45:08

#6

An Enlarged Liver: Member; +35|6753|Backward Ass Kansas

Look at the Layers Pallete - see the thing that looks like a chain link next to where the eyeball would be if the layer was visible? click that on each layer while on the layer you want them associated with.

2006-10-10 16:00:31

#7

theknuck: It's pronounced Knuck, like in Knuckle!!; +45|6622|balls

holy shit that looks like a huge file. and i dont know if there is a way to link all with doing it on each individual layer. sorry. what's your animated sigs size?

2006-10-10 16:05:17

#8

duffry: Moderator Emeritus; +148|6849|Cheshire, UK

Yeah, I don't quite get what you're after. You say you want to re-size but what re-size method are you using?
You can 'link' layers by dropping them into a common set (the little folder icon at the bottom of the layers palette).

If you say what the start state is and the desired end state (as well as how you currently get there) then we can probably be more specific.
HTH

2006-10-11 00:50:12

#9

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6701|Devon, England

An Enlarged Liver wrote:
Look at the Layers Pallete - see the thing that looks like a chain link next to where the eyeball would be if the layer was visible? click that on each layer while on the layer you want them associated with.

ok, this is what i'm doing at the moment, but with 270 odd layers, it gets annoying.

surely there must be someway of linking them all via a button or something?

2006-10-11 01:05:49

#10

WilhelmSissener: Banned; +557|6743|Oslo, Norway

Please say you did not make 103 layers manually but found another way, and tell me the other way

2006-10-11 01:20:31

#11

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6663

There was a way.. but I forgot

If you can wait for another 4 and a half hours till I get home I'll look it up (PS classroom in a book ftw)

2006-10-11 01:23:40

#12

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6663

try shift-clicking, (click layer, hold shift, scroll, click other layer)

2006-10-11 01:27:12

#13

WilhelmSissener: Banned; +557|6743|Oslo, Norway

ok, sarge. I gotta go to school now...

2006-10-11 01:41:25

#14

Bernadictus: Moderator; +1,055|6747

FFLink13 wrote:
ok, title was actually ment to be imageready help...

ok, does anyone know if there is a quick way to link all layers in Photoshop CS/the imageready that comes with photoshop cs?

cos i'm at the minute making a movie gif sig, and resizing is a bitch as i have to manually link all layers, and linking them is boring and time wasting.

so, does anyone know if there is a quicker way of doing this?

Make a folder, drop all items in, select folder, press CTRL-T, resize, press enter twice, fin.

No linking stuff.

Linking stuff migt sound great, but it is your worst enemy when your project becomes complicated.

2006-10-11 01:59:34

#15

Use0fWeapons: Get repairs here; +60|6543|Doncaster - UK

Well it looks like the folder method is what you want, i will have to look at that myself, thanks Bernadictus.

Use the 'shift click first then click last' method mentioned above if you do want to link 270 layers though.

little hint, probably not great for 270 layers, but if you click ether the link or eye and hold and drag, it will select them without you actually having to click. Useful for smaller numbers of layers.

2006-10-11 02:22:27