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P: Close/hide Multiple Layer Effects in Photoshop's Layers Panel

Advisor ,
Apr 03, 2011 Apr 03, 2011

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Id like to close the layer effects on multiple layers at once. Currently there seems to be no modifier keys to accomplish this.

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Adobe Employee , Apr 12, 2012 Apr 12, 2012
Alt/Opt clicking now expands or collapses the Layer Effect disclosure widget in Photoshop CS6.

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New Here ,
Sep 30, 2011 Sep 30, 2011

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Amen brotha!

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Community Expert ,
Oct 05, 2011 Oct 05, 2011

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Hello, did you try this:
Right-click on the Effects, or the FX area, and select "Hide all effects"

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Explorer ,
Oct 05, 2011 Oct 05, 2011

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This Hides the visibility of the effects, it does not twirl-close the expanded views for them!

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Community Expert ,
Oct 05, 2011 Oct 05, 2011

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Sorry, Antonis, I thought that's what David requested.
It might be useful to untwirl them all at once, indeed, for "tall" images.

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 11, 2011 Dec 11, 2011

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I was about to open a thread for this request... but now I found yours and I absolutely support it 🙂

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LEGEND ,
Feb 24, 2012 Feb 24, 2012

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This is already available, but it is a bit quirky. If you hold down Ctrl+Alt and click on the collapse divot of a TOP LEVEL group (folder), then it will collapse ALL the groups and ALL the layer effects in the entire document. Doing the same thing to an expand divot for a top level group will have the opposite effect: all layer groups will be expanded, and all layer effects will be expanded.

In practice this works really well. I know it doesn't work as smoothly as what you're suggesting. It would be nice if this would work only on sub-groups, but it doesn't work that way. But in practice, it's good enough and I use it ALL the time.

Edit: Well, now I tested it and it looks like it does work on sub groups. Not sure why I thought it didn't.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012

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Totally NOT working in PS CS5.
Tried all the key-modifier combinations, too, with no avail.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012

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Which OS?
On Mac command-alt-clicking the triangles seems to work as described for me.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012

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Windows 7
Alt+Ctrl won't work on this arrow.

After a heap of experiments I found out that it does work on a different arrow. The one that expands/collapses the "folder with layers".
In this case, yes -- it not only collapses all the folders with layers but does also the effects "threads", which solves the issue but with very uncalled for "side effects".

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 12, 2012 Apr 12, 2012

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Alt/Opt clicking now expands or collapses the Layer Effect disclosure widget in Photoshop CS6.

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LEGEND ,
Apr 12, 2012 Apr 12, 2012

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Thank God : ) About time.

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