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Vibrant_judge5DE4
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August 3, 2018
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Selecting / deselecting with the move tool

  • August 3, 2018
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So frustrating. Am I missing something? Pre-cc I was able to drag+select on the canvas, and then drag to DEselect / unselect specific layers (sometimes there are just too many layers to go individually click on the layers panel / the objects are too small to individually click on the canvas) - but now this deselecting functionality using the move tool is just gone? It's a huge part of how I work and I am so confused as to why this feature would have been removed??

Photoshop CC, mac OS high sierra (but it's been a year long struggle with other machines, PC and operating systems).

Is there some new secret keyboard shortcut that's buried under the millions adobe seems to feel are necessary?

Help!

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Vibrant_judge5DE4Author
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August 3, 2018

Should clarify, I used to be able to hold shift and drag the move tool over the canvas with already selected layers to DEselect specific layers.

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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August 3, 2018

On windows with the move tool with auto select checked. If I hold the shift key press I find with a Click over a layer I can Add or remove layers in a group of selected layers.   However can not remove all selected layers in the group an only selected layer will remain selected.  I can use the layers palette to deselect all layers.

With the mouse button and shift key held down ITS a little funky how layers get added and removed from the selected group of layers the background layer does not play in the move tool autoselect layer game

JJMack
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