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How to marching ants select the outline of the layer?

If I want to just marching ants select the entire outline of every piece on this layer, how do I do it at an instant?

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If I want to just marching ants select the entire outline of every piece on this layer, how do I do it at an instant?

By @AntDX316

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Use Ctrl + A to select ALL.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Inspiring

Ctrl+A does nothing

Community Expert

It works on Windows.

What OS do you have?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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You mean, all the pixels there? Ctrl-click on the layer icon.

Community Expert

Here's one easy way:

-Duplicate the layer

-Color Overlay (any color. I use black usually)

-Layer>Rasterize>Layer Style

-On the dupe layer, select with Magic Wand tool

-Ta-Da! Marching ants

Now you can go to the original layer and use the selection on it.

-edit formatting

Inspiring

wouldn't ctrl+left-click on the layer do the same?

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