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P: Setting opacity of multiple group layers sets opacity of included layers

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July 22, 2020
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setting opacity of multiple group layers sets opacity of included layers.

Steps to reproduce:

Create 3 group layers, each containing 2 text layers:

> group 1
- text 1
- text 2
> group 2
- text 3
- text 4
> group 3
- text 5
- text 6
Collapse the group layers

> group 1
> group 2
> group 3
Select all group layers
Select the marquee tool
Press the key '5'.

Expected:

All group layers are set to 50% opacity
The text layers remain at 100%

Actual:

All group layers are set to 50% opacity
The text layers in all but the bottom group are set to 50%

Photoshop version 21.2.1, Mac OS Mojave, 10.14.6 (18G5033)

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Thanks.

Earth Oliver

Legend

I tested on Win10 and had the same results. I filed a bug report linking to this thread and included my verification of the issue.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Well, »sense« is a strong word ...

One thing, though: Both of Peter and Yves appear to work on Mac and so do I – so I wonder if there is a possibility that it might perform differently on Windows.
What is your OS, eartho?

Earth Oliver

Legend

I've filed a bug for this. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

Earth Oliver

Legend

yes, yes, makes perfect sense. lol.

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Yves-CH

Inspiring

Bon, maintenant que les "Champions" ont mis leur grain de sel, que nous avons fait le débug, il serait bon que les gourous de Adobe en prenne connaissance et valide pour que ce soucis soit corrigé rapidement. Merci.

Yves Crausaz, Suisse, retraité actif dans le monde de la photo et des arts graphiques.

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Yves-CH

Inspiring

Je viens d'essayer, si on sélectionne les groupes via Cmd, ça fonctionne, si on regroupe les 3 groupes dans un 4ème groupe, l tout refermé, ça fonctionne, les textes se modifient de la même valeur en même temps !

Il y a donc un problème lors de la sélection d'un groupe de groupes à l'aide de la touche Maj !

Yves Crausaz, Suisse, retraité actif dans le monde de la photo et des arts graphiques.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Apparently Photoshop’s selection of Layers in the Layers Panel does something a little surprising – it seems to disregard whether Groups are expanded or closed (in the regard of selecting Layers anyway).
So shift-clicking selects the Groups AND the contained Layers (except for the lowermost Group) while cmd-clicking only selects the clicked Groups themselves.

So for now you may want to just assume that Groups behave as if they were expanded no matter whether they are or not.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Indeed, when cmd-click it works as expected. Good to know but I consider this to be a bug (and a rather annoying one in my workflow). How did you come to this assumption?

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I expect the problem is

Select all group layers

Try not shift-clicking topmost and lowermost group, but cmd-clicking all the groups before changing the opacity.
Does it make a difference?

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