'Ignore Adjustment Layers' when auto selecting

Auto select - being able to highlight layers based on where you click in the image, is a very useful option. Especially for design based work.
What I want is a way to specify the auto-selecting of active layer content only (this could be pixel or vector of course). And for it not to pick up adjustment layers.This could be an additional option in the move tool options bar. It would also be picked up with the Command and Shift command shortcuts (control on PC) which are so useful as they are.
Unfortunately for those of us that work with very complex layered structures, with many adjustment layers at the top level - auto select will also pick up WHITE areas on masks which have content other than 100% white or black. Its actually quite rare than you want to highlight adjustment layers in this way, and it really gets in the way. It very quickly becomes impossible to auto-acivate layers underneath any masked adustment layers
I am also aware of the contextual Control click and choose any layer under the icon, but this is not a replacement.

A workaround to avoid auto selecting adjustment layers is to lock the adjustment layer.
But an option in the Move tool will be more elegant solution.

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When the Eyedropper is set to sample from All Layers, there should be also an option to ignore adjustment layers above the currently selected layer.
The lack of this feature in Photoshop makes art creation and photo retouching extremely difficult when adjustment layers are used.
To reproduce the problem:
Create several layers with some colors or images in them.
Add one or more adjustment layers on top that change the colors of all layers.
Select a layer to paint on.
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Pick the Brush tool, hold Alt to get to the Eyedropper and pick a color from any of the layers and paint.
The result is a different color because the Eyedropper picked the adjusted color and this makes painting and retouching in this natural way impossible.
The above steps is basically the most common workflow when a user paints or retouches a certain layer using the Brush tool while constantly picking colors form other areas of the image by holding Alt to get to the Eyedropper tool, similar to using the Clone Stamp Tool,

Even a »Current and Below«-setting for the Eyedropper Tool would be helpful, I guess.

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I have a iPhone 5, since day one I have had poor reception, 1 bar, when my daughters Samsung S3 has 3 bars, same network btw. It makes me feel I bought the wrong phone. If one more person at Three or Apple tell me to restore my phone to factory settings, I am going to scream. Also when network is selected as auto, the phone, when it feels like it goes to no service. It is only when I select the network manually, does it get a signal.
The phone is still under Apple's 90 day support, I was reminded today by a Apple rep of this. After the 90 days I would have to buy Applecare for any software related problem. So basically if Apple do not ressolve the problem with my "not fit for purpose phone" within the 90 days, I will have to pay for it. This is not good customer service Apple, I am someone who has believed in your productsas I have an iMac and iPad. I waited years to get an iPhone because I had the 3GS, which I thought was crap, the iPhone 5 convinced me to give the iPnone another try, I have had nothing but problems with it, previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy Note, no problems at all.
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Well I had the exact same problem with my Iphone 5s, I tried many things such as turning the airplane mode on/off, restarting the device and also did a network settings reset. Nothing helped.
The next thing I did was to do a general reset via iTunes to factory settings (Made a backup first. Very important if you can connect to iTunes, it's a MUST). When the phone booted-up again, I had to ''activate the phone. But to activate it, I needed a connection with a network. But that was the whole problem so I was stuck and couldn't do anything with the device.
So I called the Apple support centre. We tried a few things, they all dindn't work. The last option (which worked for me) was to do a recovery (I have no idea what this reset is called) via the device+ iTunes.
To perform the reset, please follow these steps and hopefully it will work for you as well.
1. Open iTunes
2. Connect your USB cable to the computer, NOT to your device yet.
3. Power Off your device, and be sure that it is Off.
4. Press the home and hold it.
5. Connect the USB cable to your phone. You will see a iTunes logo on your device, you can release the home button.
6. Do a recovery via iTunes. iTunes will now recover the phone.
If it doesn't work the first time, try again. I had to do it twice and luckily it worked the second time.
I hope that this will help, Good luck!

Applying Adjustment Layers Only to Selected Layers

How do I make adjustment layers 1 & 2 apply to all layer below them,
but have adjustment layers 3 & 4 only apply to the indented layers
below them -- layers 4, 5 & 6? That is adjustment layers 3 & 4 should
apply to layers 5 & 6 but, not apply to the background layer.
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Adjustment layer 2
Adjustment layer 3
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AutoSelect Without Adjustment Layers

Hello,
I am using the Move Tool with Autoselect enabled, meaning that when this tool is active, I just left click anywhere in the document and it will automatically select the layer that the left click occurred ontop of. It will always select the top-most layer.
The problem is, my very top layer is an adjustment layer. So this tool is now rendered useless, because it's always selecting the Adjustment layer because it's always the top-most layer. I can't get it to select any layers beneath the adjustment layer.
is there a way around this, to maybe have the Move Tool (AutoSelect enabled) to ignore adjustment layers in this instance?

thanks guys - sorry for the delayed reply but I was having a hard time trying to find my way around the new forums
ctrl-clicking is okay, but I work with a large amount of layers that I bounce back and forth between, so prefer to find a way to directly switch to another layer without having to search through the pop-up layers menu - it becomes very tedious when the menu pops up with a selection of 20 layers and then I need to search through that list. At least with the auto-select tool I could jump right to another layer by left clicking and then deal with it from there.
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Adjustment layers not working in CMYK MODE?

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I have a photoshop issue and was wondering if you could shed any light on the matter?
When ever i set my document to CMYK mode, some of my adjustment layers become 'un-selectable' such as the Black & White, vibrance and the exposure adjustment layers?
They work fine in RGB mode but was curious if this was common place?
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but surely the black and white one does? or am i wrong there?
It would seem you are.
You can still use Hue/Saturation as a work-around.
how do i go about finding that particular thread?
That’s no thread but a headline in the Help; personally I prefer to download the pdf:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/index.html
I am working in cmyk as the poster i am producing is for print, so the document is put into that mode for that purpose.
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Help, where is "Ignore accidental input when typing" checkbox on the PC?

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I'm new to Macs and just got myself a new MBP Corei7. It's running Windows 7 great, however I find the track pad just too sensitive when I type on the keyboard, I keep inadvertently touching the track pad with my palm or thumb as I type causing the cursor to jump.
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How do you turn off the auto select behavior when working with shape layers?

How do you turn off the auto select behavior when working with shape layers?
I am using either of the path selection tools to select only some of the paths on the layer. I have the proper layer targeted. I have the selection too auto select option turned off.
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Consider this simple document with 2 layers and an adjustment layer:
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Thanks for the added clarifications Noel. Can you perhaps explain to me how the behaviour of the color sampler in the info palette is actually desirable?
Let's look at my example again. When I am trying to make an adjustment and I'm looking at my color sampler targets, I _must_ have my adjustment layer selected. Target #1 is pointed over a white pixel. Regardless of which layer I have selected, that pixel is white. I can't imagine a scenario in which the readout should be anything other than 255,255,255. That's not a feature, that's a design mistake.
If I want to see, in the readout, the value of the background image's pixel, then I should hide the layer that contains that white shape. Then, that pixel is no longer white, and the color sampler readout should reflect that. Makes sense.
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And if you re-read that last paragraph you will intuitively know that that would be crazy. I mean, there's no way that a user would want to have the UI hide any layers just because he's clicked on the Adjustment Layer - he probably wants to see the adjustment in the context of the entire composition. If he wanted to hide those other layers, he'd do it himself.
I urge you to reconsider this from the perspective of a real-world user and consider logging this as a bug. I just can't see any way that it isn't a mistake.

When I select an adjustment layer I do not automatically get a mask.

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Cs4/Cs5 look on the adjustments panel flyout menu and check add Mask by Default.
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When you're selecting layers directly from an image (using CTRL) you also select adjustment layers, so sometimes you have to lock this layer in order to get to the right layer.
It would be a lot easier to manipulate many layers (usually in my case, most of them have the adjustment layer setting 'attached' to them) if i wouldn't select these 'adjustments' when I click on the canvas.
Is it actually possible to do?
Hope I made some sense (english ain't my native tongue ;-))
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