: How to select a layer in photoshop? In Photoshop, if you choose View > Show > Layer Edges, a blue border will appear around the currently-selected layer. Is there a way to make the marquee

@Radia289

Depending on what you need to do, I do this very often to copy a layer to a new document cropped to bounding pixels:


Alt+Click on the 'eye' of a layer to solo it.
Cmd+A(command or control) to select all
Cmd+Shift+C to copy everything
Cmd+N to create new document, it will automatically create it at
the right size
Cmd+V to paste


Done.

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@Karen819

There is not a "simple" way to do this out of the box, but if you want to select the area to copy you can make an action script with:


Trim (Transparent pixels - same as showing boundaries of the content in the layer)
Select All
Shift+Ctrl+C for merged copy, or just Ctrl+C for content in the current layer.
Revert back to before Trimming.


I created an action for you with these steps. It can be downloaded from here: www.sendspace.com/file/f3nh0n
(remember to perform virus check on files you receive by from strangers such as a me).

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@Phylliss782

IIRC, cmd+click on the layer in the layers panel.

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