How To Select All Text Layers At Once

How To Select All Text Layers At Once

I went a long time without knowing this trick, and the moment I stumbled upon it, I suddenly wished I could go back and relive all the time I'd wasted selecting multiple text layers one at a time in my Photoshop documents.

Here I have a document open with six layers - the Background layer on the bottom and then five text layers above it:

Photoshop Tips and Tricks: Photoshop's Layers palette showing the Background layer and five text layers above it.

This is just a simple example, but you could run into situations where you have hundreds of layers, with text layers scattered here, there and everywhere throughout the Layers palette. And let's say you needed to select all of them at once. Rather than scrolling through the Layers palette and selecting them one at a time, all you need to do is select one of them, then go up to the Select menuat the top of the screen and choose Similar Layers. And just like that, all of your text layers throughout the document will be selected:

Photoshop Tips and Tricks: After choosing "Similar Layers" from the "Select" menu, all text layers are selected.

This doesn't only work with text layers. Select > Similar Layers will work on whichever type of layer you currently have selected.

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