Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

USE LAYER FILTERS to quickly find the layer you need
Photoshop CS6 includes a new feature that enables
you to filter the layers in the Layers panel based on
specific criteria to help you more easily find, select,
and organize layers. This is especially important in
documents that contain a large number of layers or
for workgroups where different people might be
working on different parts of a large file.
You can filter the layers by clicking the layer filter
drop-down menu at the top of the layers panel and
selecting Kind, and then clicking the icon to filter by
pixel layers, adjustment layers, type layers, shape
layers, or Smart Object layers. You can also filter
layers by selecting a different type of filter in the
drop-down menu. You can then filter by the layer
name, by a specific type of layer effect, by the blend
mode, by an attribute such as locked layers or visible
layers, or by the layer color.
The layer filtering switch enables you to view only the
filtered layers and then toggle the filter off to view all
the layers.
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1 Open a file that has multiple
layers and different types of
layers.
Note: Pixel layers are those that
include pixels, such as a photo or
rasterized image. Other types of
layers can contain shapes or type.
Others, such as adjustment layers,
may not show anything on the
layer and simply affect the layers
below. Layers and groups can be
color coded and/or named.
2 Click the layer filter drop-down
menu and select Kind.
3 Click the filter for pixel layers
icon.
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Only the layers filled with pixels
appear in the Layers panel.
4 Click the layer filter switch to turn
the filtering off.
All the layers are again visible.
5 Click the layer filter switch to turn
the filtering on again.
6 Click the Filter drop-down menu
and select Color.
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