Selecting Layers

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How do I turn off the auto-select feature? Usually, when I want to select a layer, I right click and choose it, now all of a sudden, when I left click on anything, it selects it and won't remove the selection box until I click another area. You can see below it put's a box around the layer, I dont want that

[Stephen Marsh]

Look at the move tool options, however I would expect the contextual right click layer selection to still work.

[BrettN]

When you have the Move tool selected, the options bar at the top includes "Auto-Select" and "Show Transform Controls" as settings which can be checked/unchecked. They are checked by default, simply uncheck to remove these two behaviors.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Auto Select is possibly Photoshop's most annoying function, and definitely best turned off.

It's still useful when you need it though, and it can be temporarily re-enabled by holding down the Ctrl/Cmd key with the Move tool selected.