In CS2, how to do a Ctrl+layer click equivalent?

[Magic Man]

In previous editions of Photoshop, you could use a quick command of ctrl+click a layer in order to select everything in a given layer minus transparency areas.

Doing this in PS CS2, it doesnt do this - does anyone know the new command for this function?

Cheers, m.

[Datameister]

When Adobe implemented the multiple layer editing features in CS2, they changed the ctrl-click selection a bit. You now have to ctrl-click the thumbnail, not the layer name. Ctrl-clicking the layer name won't work.

[madster]

Funny, MM, I never knew that trick. I've always Ctrl-clicked the layer in the layers palette to select everything on the layer...Since I'm still running 7.01, I gotta go try that out. Thanks!

Edit: Nope. You must have been sniffing rubber cement thinner, MM. Ctrl-Clicking the layer selects whatever layer the cursor is touching something on (no change for transparency), and Ctrl-clicking the document name does absolutely nothing...

I think you were imagining things.

~M

[Magic Man]

When Adobe implemented the multiple layer editing features in CS2, they changed the ctrl-click selection a bit. You now have to ctrl-click the thumbnail, not the layer name. Ctrl-clicking the layer name won't work.

sweet, thanks mate.

maddy - try what datameister just said, works a charm.

[Datameister]

Ctrl-clicking the thumbnail should create a selection based on the layer's transparency. An alternate way to do this would be to copy the whole layer, paste it onto a new alpha channel, and ctrl-click that alpha channel to load the selection.