Learned a new tip in Boston at Photoshop World....
To unlock the Background layer in Photoshop CS4 you can simply drag the lock icon to the trash. That's a quicker way than the method many people use (double-clicking on the Background layer and renaming it)
9 comments:
Hey Dave,
Didn't know about that one, but what about Alt/Opt + Double clicking the background layer that is my favorite way of getting that job done.
Thanks man!
Hey Dave,
Sweet tip, didn't know about that one. I gotta get out to one of these Photoshop Worlds...
I always use Alt/Opt + Double Click to unlock the background while skipping that dialog box. That's my favorite way anyway.. thanks for the tip man!
Nathaniel
I actaully think you can just double click the layer, then hit OK without chaning anything. That also unlocks it =)
Great tip; incredibly useful.
Doesn't work. I get the circle with the line going through it when I go to drag and the trash is greyed out.
@ Harold: this only works in CS4
Hi Dave...This was a really useful tip. Makes it much easier for simple quick edits.
What I'd really like though, is to change the default way in which Photoshop opens the picture. Instead of having a locked background layer, I want it to automatically duplicate the background keeping the bottom layer as a normal locked background and the top layer and an unlocked duplicate.
Any suggestions for how to accomplish this one?
@ JEF: check tomorrow's blog post :)
Dave
I have CS4 and been fooling around with it today and finally figured it out. I didn't read your tip carefully.
I was dragging the word 'Background" to the thrash and not the lock to the trash.
So feeling really silly right now.
Thanks for the Tip Dave. :-)
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