gymmie

Those of us who have used Photoshop for awhile remember floaters. What's a floater? It's a single object that "floats" above the file, independently. Although they can be very useful, since version 5, I think, they are gone. Or are they?

You can still get a floater, even with multiple "objects" on a layer. Here's how:

Say you have a rasterized type layer, and you want to do something to just one letter. Loosely select that letter with the Lasso tool. Hold the Command (Mac)/Control (PC) key down and nudge the Up Arrow once, then the Down Arrow once. The object will be perfectly selected so you can move it, color it, resize it, etc. independently of the rest of the layer. (You can't give it an independent layer style, though, because that is, after all, a layer style.)

I never of this one, great tip again Julie [righton] after that layer mask tip