Photoshop Layer Groups Menu

8 Responses

1. Darren Hoyt

   This might be a technical foul to post to Dribbble, but I'm interested what people think. Currently in Photoshop when you CTRL+Click with the Move tool, you get a layers menu. If you have a huge document with a lot of groups and subgroups, the menu can be hard to read. This is a simple tweak using folder icons, bullets and extra indentation. Curious if anyone wants to rebound their own improved menu. PSD is here.

   over 1 year ago

2. Pro Stefan Hartwig

   You're hired.

   over 1 year ago

3. Brian Casel

   Great post. This feature is so frustrating that it's completely useless in it's current state. This would be much better.

   over 1 year ago

4. Pro Patrick Algrim

   Is this also assuming that people name their layers properly? Because it would probably look like, Layer 1 Copy 3 Layer 13 Copy 2.. Hah!

   over 1 year ago

5. Pro Ted Goas

   @Patrick Yes, but if "Copy 3 of Copy of Layer 148" was indented under "Copy 2 of Copy of Layer 148", I'd magically understand my layers. Ha!

   over 1 year ago

6. Pro Ethan Marcotte

   I worked with Ryan Sims on a project, who (to this day) still sets the gold standard for layer organization. By the time I saw his comps, everything was beautifully named and grouped into layer sets. But the name of each set was prefaced with a bullet and a space (“• ”), which got pretty close to what you’ve mocked up here: at least, it was a nicely indented bulleted list.

   Which was a damned joy to produce.

   over 1 year ago

7. Darren Hoyt

   @Ethan: I usually put a hash (#) in the place of each group name and a bullet in place of individual layers, just for my own sake. But, I do wish Photoshop had a way to do this intuitively by default....

   over 1 year ago

8. Pro Ethan Marcotte

   Ooh, that’s a nice system—I like that.

   And yeah, Photoshop could really stand to make this more intuitive.

   over 1 year ago