Move items inside/outside hidden and locked layers.
I want to move items in and out of locked and/or hidden layers.
I use the lock and hidden options to not accendently modify them on the canvas, but I do neet to rearrange them in the layers, or need a copy of an item.
Philipp Jordan
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Three more examples to show the difference between Ai, Ps, and InD.
Only Photoshop, with its groups of layers (compared to objects in layers in Ai and InD) allows to move both in and out, despite the hidden / locked state of a layer / group.
NOT allowing it serves no practical purpose. I mean, what it ALLOWS me to do by forbidding it? It doesn’t offer me to unlock or show (like it does when I try to paste in a hidden layer) even.
I KNOW these are locked and hidden — on canvas! But I intend to reorder in the PANEL. Only Photoshop does it right. -
A shorter demo
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Indeed!
While it’s possible to move an item out of a locked or hidden group, locking or hiding a top-level layer would prevent us from doing the same!More of it — if have a layer locked e.g, and click a pale lock icon next to a child item, the lock becomes solid, as if I am overriding the 'the parent is locked' status... but it can’t be toggled back, and unlocking the top layer would drop the state! This should be reported separately, I think, will do.
New idea from comment
This comment was upgraded into a new idea: Locking child objects in a locked top layer is not respected when the layer is unlocked and won’t toggle back
