{"id":16999,"date":"2011-06-07T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2011-06-07T08:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:34:22","slug":"how-to-collapseexpand-photoshop-layer-groups-folders-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/how-to-collapseexpand-photoshop-layer-groups-folders-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"How to collapse\/expand Photoshop layer groups (folders) at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designer <a href=\"http:\/\/designbyeri.ca\/\">Erica Schoonmaker<\/a> tweeted the other day,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I wish there was a shortcut to collapse all layer folders in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is! Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/crawlspace\/\">Jeff Tranberry<\/a>, I can now point out the following*:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open\/close all layer groups (folders) at the current level of hierarchy: Cmd-click the arrow next to the group\n<ul>\n<li>This is handy when you want to open\/close, say, all the top-level groups without disturbing the open\/closed state of any groups nested within them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open\/close all layer groups nested within the current one: Opt-click the arrow next to the group\n<ul>\n<li>This is nice when you want to open\/shut a bunch of nested groups, without affecting any that lie outside the target group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open\/close all layer groups, period: Cmd-Opt-click the arrow next to a group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, to keep things simple: when in doubt, <strong>Cmd-Opt-click a group&#8217;s arrow and you&#8217;ll collapse\/expand all groups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>*On Windows please substitutes\u00a0Ctrl for Cmd and Alt for Opt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer Erica Schoonmaker tweeted the other day, I wish there was a shortcut to collapse all layer folders in Photoshop. There is! Thanks to Jeff Tranberry, I can now point out the following*: Open\/close all layer groups (folders) at the current level of hierarchy: Cmd-click the arrow next to the group This is handy when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}