Photoshop CS6 Layer-Merging Tricks

By Peter Bauer

Part of the Photoshop CS6 For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Here are some tricks for working with layers in Photoshop CS6 if the Layers palette gets too crowded and you want to: apply the same filter to multiple layers; streamline your Layers palette; or work with multiple layers as a single entity:

To:	Do:
Merge the active layer into the layer below	Command+E/Ctrl+E
Merge all visible layers into the active layer	Command+Shift+E/Ctrl+Shift+E
Merge a copy of all visible layers into a new layer	Command+Shift+Option+E/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E