Control+click on layer
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I don't know what else to call it. Before they made Photoshop so silly, I used to be able to hold control, then click on a layer - it would auto select whatever was in that layer, now..nothing.
When you would touch the Control key, the cursor would have a dotted line around it as you hovered over the layer.
So..this was awesome, why did they take that away?
Is there a way to get it back?
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You can do that with the move tool. ctrl/cmd toggles auto select, so if you have auto select selected, it will turn it off. If you have it off, it will temporarily turn it on.
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Ctrl-click on a layer thumbnail selects the layer content, transparent pixels excluded.
Ctrl-click on a channel thumbnail loads a luminosity selection.

