Ever worked on a really complex design? One of those suckers that stretch for hundreds of layers? If you’re like me, you probably reach the point where understanding what’s going on feels like a task best suited for supercomputers pretty quick. Well, here’s a quick pro tip that’ll help you stay on top of the situation.
Alt+Click / Option+Click
If you want to quickly contract/expand a group tree in Photoshop’s Layer palette, just Alt+Click the little arrow next to the parent group. This little thing:
This may be a familiar feature to some of you, but what few of you know is that if you just created a bunch of Layer Styles via the Blending Options panel, minimizing the group will take care of minimizing the little “fx” drop. I don’t know about you but leaving an fx drop down open just drives me nuts, so this little tip takes care of manually fixing that.
Ctrl+Alt+Click / ⌘ + Option + Click
This one’s the daddy version of the Alt+Click trick. No matter which arrow you Ctrl+Alt+Click, the entire tree structure of your document will contract/expand. Yes, even groups that are not children of the group you were clicking on. How cool is that!
Happy clicking!
Great find Sick! Could get quite annoyed clicking those little arrows..
Nice one
Can’t stand expanded (fx) sub-menus but it was a real pain when you had to go thru 40+ layers. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing your findings. Cheers!!
did you know you can disable that fx drop?
go to palette options for Layers, uncheck “Expand new effects”, voilá!
Well, I’ll be a pickled herring! I did not know about that. Thanks!
Nice Share.
You’re quickly becoming my hero!
Then there is only one thing to do. This:
Amazing! Thanks a million