All right, welcome back.
In this lecture, want to talk about the layer menu shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts.
So the first thing I want to do is we're going to close out this image that we work with in the previous
video.
So I'm going to save it.
And Untitled Wheel does have control asselin control w to close that out.
Now what I want to do is hit control n I'm going to do untitled sex, OK?
I'm in a control shift as we're going to save that to the desktop.
OK.
Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna learn about the layers.
OK.
So we're going to talk specifically about the layer menu and a lot of the shortcuts here are gonna be
ones that you can see right in front of you here.
Right there.
And then right here.
OK.
So I just want to give you kind of a visual aid on that.
So if I hit so I want you to watch from down here where we are layer's panel as if we hit shift control.
And what that's going to do is it's going to prompt up a new layer.
So we can name whatever we want.
We can also give it a color and we can put it in a mode.
So if you want to give it a different mode than you can.
I'm going to leave it as normal.
OK.
Now you can see layer one is red.
And were selected.
Right.
So if I do another one, let's to shift control and let's give this one orange.
And we'll just keep it layer two.
And then let's make another one.
And we're gonna give it yellow car and then we'll make another one and we're gonna give it the color
green and we'll do three more.
So we're gonna do.
Blue.
Violent and then gray.
OK.
So we should have a total of seven new layers that we've created with this keyboard shortcut.
And the reason why that's important.
The reason why create a new layer is important is because I use this tool all the time whenever I need
a new layer.
Shift control.
And this is one of the main keyword shortcuts I use.
I could spend an entire course just talking about layers.
So the point is, is that new layer is a great keyboard shortcut.
And it's going to make your life so much easier.
So the next thing we're talking about is layer V, a copy.
So if I had control J, it's going to copy layer seven, which.
I got to be honest.
I didn't even know that you could do that.
That's awesome.
That's something that I learned when I was researching for this course.
Now, if we want to cut that layer, we're going to shift control, Jay.
And what that's going to do.
So I shift controlled, Jay is going to cut the layer and then we're going to hit.
Let's see, how do I pace this time?
Well, that's the duplicate, the cut, and I guess I'll just delete the layer, be a cut.
I don't even know why that's a keyboard shortcut, honestly.
If we wanted to export.
A layer as a J peg, you make shift control.
Explanation, point or apostrophe.
And it's empty.
Right.
So let's do this.
Let's grab a brush and I'm gonna do that and then we'll try it again.
And now you can see.
I can export it right from the air.
That's awesome.
So that's that's a quick export as PMG is what that is.
So if I say this is layer seven and then minimises for a second, you can see right here we have layer
seven.
OK.
So how cool is that to be able to go from the layer?
And just quick export it out as a quick export as PMG.
That's awesome.
Now, if you want to export as we're going to hit AWALT shift control apostrophe.
Right.
And what that's going to do is it's going to take us to the prompt menu where we can select the format
and select a lot more options here.
So I can export all.
And we're going to call this layer seventy eight instead of seven.
So I can save it.
And then when I go to the desktop.
There it is right here.
Beautiful.
OK.
So I'm going to save this with control us.
Now the next thing we can do is create a clipping mask.
So if I hit out control G.
OK.
What that's gonna do is it's going to mask what I have.
So Layer Mass are really cool.
Basically the idea behind it as you put an object here.
And then you can mask over it with something or you can hide part of it and then show other parts of
it.
That's another entire course I can go over.
So I'm not going to cover it in depth.
I'm just gonna give you a broad stroke.
And that's really the broad stroke at this point.
Now, the next shortcut is group layers.
So this.
So if we had control G.
This is a crazy cool, he will choke up because I just did that six times, right?
So if I hit control Z, OK, go back.
You see that I don't have to even use my mouth really when I'm doing this.
You still need the mouse for this, but that's all you should be using the mouse for, is for that.
Like I shouldn't have to use it for tools.
I should know what the shortcuts are so that I can you see what I'm doing here.
I'm just I'm going haywire right now.
But the point is, is that if you know the keyboard shortcuts, you don't need.
To use this or this at all, really.
And then you can focus on getting work done.
So anyway, Control G is an awesome keyboard shortcut because you can create groups with us.
So I can grab these layers, throw them up here, grab these layers, throw the group to.
And if you highlight it and then hit control G, then they go inside.
Right.
So if I created.
So let's go outside of the box here and we're going to do shift control.
And so we'll do a couple layers here.
Just make four layers.
Highlight them then control G.
And I you have group four.
That's how easy it is.
And that makes it really easy to group layers.
Now, if you don't want to ungrouped you had shift control G.
OK.
And then all ungrouped if you want to hide the layers here, control and kharma that will hide layers.
You want to.
Unida layers do the same thing if you want to lock the layers, control backslash and that will lock
the layers.
Now these are two keyboard shortcuts again, that I did not know before I researched this.
What I've been doing is the old school way, which you highlighted and then you click on this.
So I've actually learned a few things here and I'm quite proud of saying that I'm always willing to
learn something.
So I'm never the smartest person in the room.
I'm kind of in the middle.
Let me do that.
Now you can merge down.
So if I had control, e what this is gonna do is it's going to merge all those layers together and then
merge visible.
We're gonna head shift control.
He and that will do all of them.
So all the layers were grouped together so you can merge down, which means any layers that are highlighted,
they're gonna merge together and then merge visible means all your layers are going to.
Be flattened and no one.
So if you want to export this out as an image, it will do that if you save it as an image.
But this is another way you can do that where if you want to, you know, merge them together, that's
a way to do it.
All right.
I'm going to save this file.
I'm going to undo that.
And under that as well.
And thanks for watching this lecture.
I'll see you in the next lecture.