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Photoshop: Link / unlink Layer/Vector mask to multiple Layers.
Link or Unlink ALL Layer or Vector Masks in a file.
Common Scenario:
when Transforming a Layer with a Layer Mask unlinked, only content of the Layer is being Transformed and the content of a layer/Vector mask remains unchanged.
If unintended, this could cause a headache.
Often the Transformation is performed on many layers placed in multiple Layer Groups. It is easy to overlook unlinked Layer or Vector Mask.
Fix and prevention:
Trying to match the Layer/Vector mask to already modified Layer or go back in History.
Preventively, one must scroll through all Layers in a File to locate unlinked Layer or Vector masks and link them manually.
The suggested function would quickly solve this and help to increase productivity.
Please correct me if this function or easy workaround already exist.
Thanks!
Common Scenario:
when Transforming a Layer with a Layer Mask unlinked, only content of the Layer is being Transformed and the content of a layer/Vector mask remains unchanged.
If unintended, this could cause a headache.
Often the Transformation is performed on many layers placed in multiple Layer Groups. It is easy to overlook unlinked Layer or Vector Mask.
Fix and prevention:
Trying to match the Layer/Vector mask to already modified Layer or go back in History.
Preventively, one must scroll through all Layers in a File to locate unlinked Layer or Vector masks and link them manually.
The suggested function would quickly solve this and help to increase productivity.
Please correct me if this function or easy workaround already exist.
Thanks!
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JeffreyTranberry
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10 years ago
Sr. Product Manager, Adobe Digital Imaging
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armaan_ahluwalia
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10 years ago
The need for this arises out of layers moving independent of their masks when you move a group. I have yet to find a use-case where I've wanted to move layers in a group but NOT their masks as well. Could you please make moving a group move everthing inside it including masks even if they are not linked! Or perhaps temporarily show them as linked during the move.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Link masks while moving Layers / Link-Unlink all layers in a group button.
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haim_azoulay
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9 years ago
I run into this problem every time, when working on complicated files with more then 300 layers, it's very exhausting to link or unlink layers one by one.
you can add an "unlock for all links" (or lock) toggle button next to the layer lock icon.
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roman_the_finisher
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happypants
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8 years ago
This is the way it works in AfterEffects. As the definition of a group, shouldn't everything in it move/scale when you move an object's parent? It sounds a whole lot like someone just plain messed up.
I can see how you might want an object, occasionally, to have a mask that is completely separate from the movement of all it's parents, but that is more likely rare. In AE you can choose an object to be a mask, then link that object to it's Actual parent layer, then move everything as a group, etc. Not so much in photoshop. I really wish they would get all of those software developers together so I don't have to constantly run back and forth. If they knew how I use their software they would probably laugh at how many loops I have to jump through in order to do what Could be a simple task.
ooops, little rant there.
anyway, this belongs in the bug section. If I don't see a response soon I might post it there as well.
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paul_riggott
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8 years ago
Photoshop CS5 or better....
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roman_the_finisher
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