Effect all layers option cs5
 

When creating a new layer in cs5 i'm not getting the toolbar where you can select from a drop down to apply to all layers. What am i doing wrong?

Eh? What do you mean "apply to all layers"? That option applies to tools, and isn't part of the new layer window

We had a tutorial at camera club on Friday and he created a new layer for cloning and another for sharpening but he had a drop down option for the cloning etc.. to apply to 'all layers'. I have never had this option. It wasn't in the layers toolbar it was on the top toolbar where you choose brush size etc..

The toolbar and drop down dialogue work for me, but I can't get the effect of it working on any layer other than the current hightlighted one, irrespective of whether I choose current, current & below or all.
The image I've posted below only shows one layer in the project, but I had tried earlier working with three layers and been unable to invoke the cloned result on any more than the current layer.


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Thanks rbarry for having a look. I must have been mistaken then. Because i've tried everything to sharpen all layers. If i've opened an image from raw into cs5 am i still working non destructively?

[quote=thefonz78;62480]Thanks rbarry for having a look. I must have been mistaken then. Because i've tried everything to sharpen all layers. If i've opened an image from raw into cs5 am i still working non destructively?[/quote]


I doubt that you are mistaken, it's just that I've not been aware of that command before.

From your description it should work, so I must be doing something wrong. The reason I posted the image was to see if this was the command layout you refered to, that your mentor from the club you joined had used.

I'll ask about next week see if anyone else knows how he did it.

Guys, that option only works when you have:

- Multiple layers
- Are working on a layer that you can edit (not a vector shape etc)

And as per my earlier email, that's a tool attribute, not a layer attribute :)

Hi Matt,

I understood from The fonz's post that it was possible to apply a clone tool effect to multiple layers. Out of curiosity I tried to do just that on multiple layers but was unable to. Have you successfully used a tool's effect on more than one layer at a time, and if so how?

Many thanks,

Rick.

Ok I may have got this wrong, but here goes:

It may be that when you select the multiple layers option, you are taking a sample [I][U][B]from[/B][/U][/I] all the other layers, not applying the data [I][U][B]to[/B][/U][/I] all other layers.