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This was getting rather confusing
A CTRL + click on a layer will select everything that is non-transparent on that layer.
CTRL + SHIFT will not do anything. I guess you both meant to say CTRL + SHIFT + click; this will add the selection of all non-transparent areas of any other layer and add it to the current selection. I got rather confused for a couple of reasons: Ammaro you said that it would link it to another layer, which is not the right terminology. Then I got confused because Wendy said that it would bring in the content of layer B, which is not exactly what it is; it adds the selection. Also, in my example I used two layers with both no transparent areas, so after selecting one layer and adding the selection of the other I didn't see any difference which made me even more confused [confused]

I'm happy that this is solved; thanks for the tip Ammaro

<blockquote data-quote="Guest" data-source="post: 1736">This was getting rather confusing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />A CTRL + click on a layer will select everything that is non-transparent on that layer.CTRL + SHIFT will not do anything. I guess you both meant to say CTRL + SHIFT + click; this will add the selection of all non-transparent areas of any other layer and add it to the current selection. I got rather confused for a couple of reasons: Ammaro you said that it would link it to another layer, which is not the right terminology. Then I got confused because Wendy said that it would bring in the content of layer B, which is not exactly what it is; it adds the selection. Also, in my example I used two layers with both no transparent areas, so after selecting one layer and adding the selection of the other I didn&#039;t see any difference which made me even more confused&nbsp; [confused] I&#039;m happy that this is solved; thanks for the tip Ammaro <img src="/forum/img/smilies/psg-02/perfect.png" srcset="/forum/img/smilies/psg-02/perfect.png 1x, /forum/img/smilies/psg-02/perfect_44.png 2x" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":righton:" title="Perfect&nbsp; &nbsp; :righton:" data-shortname=":righton:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest, post: 1736"] This was getting rather confusing :D A CTRL + click on a layer will select everything that is non-transparent on that layer. CTRL + SHIFT will not do anything. I guess you both meant to say CTRL + SHIFT + click; this will [b]add[/b] the selection of all non-transparent areas of any other layer and add it to the current selection. I got rather confused for a couple of reasons: Ammaro you said that it would [b]link[/b] it to another layer, which is not the right terminology. Then I got confused because Wendy said that it would bring in the content of layer B, which is not exactly what it is; it [b]adds[/b] the selection. Also, in my example I used two layers with both no transparent areas, so after selecting one layer and adding the selection of the other I didn't see any difference which made me even more confused [confused] I'm happy that this is solved; thanks for the tip Ammaro :righton: [/QUOTE]

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