How do you select all layers within a group?

I guess the best way possible would be click on the first one with lb and than last one and press shift, but OMFG the fact there is NO just-a-hotkey to do such an action is borderline MORONIC, so adobe is still adobe

No way to select all layers in a group ANY way without the third party software? Great thinking!

Thanks adobe, you (removed)

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@hen5FD8 wrote:

"Just to clarify, when I select a group, I also want it to auto select all the layers inside that group. "

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I'm not sure if this part of your question has been answered. In the options bar for the Move tool, you can choose Group instead of Layers to Auto-Select the entire group.

Jane

Hi,

Could you try this?

Select > Select All Layers

Layer > Show Layers

(optionally, Select > Deselect Layers)

I hacked at a different script and this is what I have:

// Make all layers visible in selected layer set.jsx
// Stephen Marsh - 2021
// Hacked from the following:
// https://gist.github.com/joonaspaakko/013a223e94ba0fb9a2a0
// https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2051737

#target photoshop

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var group = doc.activeLayer;
var groupLength = group.layers.length;

for (var i = 0; i < groupLength; i++) {
    group.layers[i].visible = false;
}

for (var i = 0; i < groupLength; i++) {

    var layer = group.layers[i];
    var layerIndex = i + 1;

    layer.visible = true;

}

Target/select the layer set/group and run the script (you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the script or you can record or insert the script into an action if you like).

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

You could try recording an action:

Select > Select All Layers

Layer > Show Layers

(optionally, Select > Deselect Layers)

The first part of question does not have built in solution, as far as I know.

(I've found an annoying problem when switching between Layer Comps; it'll hide all the layers in a group instead of hiding just the group! That's annoying.)

Which version of Photoshop? I am testing Layer Comps 21.2.6 and everything works fine, if you hide group and create layer comp that comp will remember state and hide only group eyeball in front of layers will be on but dimmed out. Selecting layer comp with previous comp will show group and all layers inside.