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12. Click the arrow to the left of the Logotypes group name to expand the layer group.
You have to expand the layer group to be able to access and edit individual layers in the
group. If you select the entire layer group, you can move all layers within the group at
the same time. Layers in the group maintain their position relative to one another.

Note:

You can click the Eye
icon for a layer folder
to hide the entire layer
group (and all layers
inside the folder).

13. Save the file and continue to the next exercise.

movE and transform a smart objEct layEr
Photoshop makes scaling, rotating, and other transformations fairly easy to implement,
but it is important to realize the potential impact of your transformations.

1. With cd-artwork.psd open, click the Title-text layer (in the Logotypes
folder) in the Layers panel to select only that layer.

2. Choose the Move tool in the Tools panel.
As the name suggests, the Move tool is used to move a selection around on the canvas.
You can select a specific area, and then click and drag to move only the selection on
the active layer. If there is no active selection area, you can click and drag to move the
contents of the entire active layer.

3. In the Options bar, make sure the Auto-Select option is not checked.
When Auto-Select is checked, you can click in the image window and drag to move
the contents of the layer containing the pixels where you click; you do not need to first
select the layer in the Layers panel before moving the layer content. This is very useful
in some cases, but not so much in others — for example, when the contents of multiple
layers are stacked on top of each other (as is the case in your file as it exists now).

4. Click in the image window and drag until the Logo layer content snaps to
the top and left live-area guides.
If you toggled off the Snap feature when you used the Crop tool, you should turn it
back on now by choosing View>Snap.
Uncheck
this option.
Move tool
Select the layer you
want to move, then
click and drag in the
document window to
move the layer content.

Project 1: Music CD Artwork 53