Grouping

Layers can be grouped together for easier management and for restricting adjustments or masks to particular layers within your project. Layer groups can be nested together within a 'parent' layer group.

Grouped layers remain together so they can be easily selected, moved and copied. Furthermore, once a layer group is established, adjustments and masks can be applied to the group and will affect all the layers within the group but not those outside the group.

Groups, and nested groups, can be broken apart at any time into their separate layers.

Group Layers To create a group:
  1. Select two or more layers. (On the Layers panel, -click each layer.)
  2. Do one of the following:
    • On the Layers panel, click Group Layers.
    • From the Arrange menu, select Group.
Group Layers To create an empty group:
  1. With no content selected1, do one of the following:
    • From the Layer menu, select New Group.
    • On the Layers panel, click Group Layers.

Dragging layers onto the newly created group adds them to it.

1 When a single existing object, layer or layer group is selected, it is not added to the new group.

To name a group:
  1. Do one of the following:
    • On the Layers panel, double-click the existing group.
    • With the group selected, from the Layer menu, select Rename Layer.
  2. Type a new name.
  3. Press .

You can enable Ask for name when creating Layers and Groups setting to be prompted to name them upon creation. This is found in the Settings (or Preferences)>User Interface section.

To ungroup layer content:
  1. On the Layers panel, select the layer group.
  2. From the Arrange menu, select Ungroup.
To release a layer from a layer group:

Do one of the following:

Expand/Collapse To select a specific layer within a layer group:
  1. On the Layers panel, expand the layer group to show its contents by clicking the layer's arrow.
  2. Click to select a layer within the group.

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