: In Photoshop, how do you make object shrink or grow by just dragging a layer over? Take a look at this guy's video, at the part where he slides the sides of the table out and in to make

@Caterina889

Based upon that video.... although it's difficult to see....

He's got two layers for each side of the desk. These two layers are linked.

So although he clicks one layer and drags, both layers move.

The layer controlling the tabletop, has a layer mask on it. And that layer mask hides or shows content when he drags.

It's nothing overly special or complex. You just have to pay attention to the little link icon that appears when he highlights a layer, then watch the mask on the lower layer move when he moves the mouse.

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@Deb5748823

Confusing question. just to throw my [CO].02 in, in the video it looks like he's using Smart Objects which you can double click on in the layers panel to reveal a SMB file, which is just a fancy embedded PSD. You can then replace the content with whatever you want, and when you save+close, the content of the object is updated in the parent document.

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@Marchetta832

This is a shape layer, so I assume the desk is a texture, and the stand is a linked texture, as indicated by the linked symbol.

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