How do you lock a layer in Photoshop...
polycounter lvl 18
How do you lock a layer in Photoshop in the same manner as the "background" layer is locked when creating a new image? That is with the grey lock icon and text in cursive.
The reason for my quest is since this seems to be the issue with people getting the "Too many channels to export(5)" when trying to save DDSs. You seem to get this if you don't have a layer which is locked in this manner.
Yeah I know "Flatten image" works as this will get you this type of layer, but it also kills all your layers you have. A dangerous action as you might accidentally save the work file in this flattened state.
A quite hacky workaround is duplicating your documents layers into a new document in order to get a the desired locked "background" layer. But there must be a better way.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
The reason for my quest is since this seems to be the issue with people getting the "Too many channels to export(5)" when trying to save DDSs. You seem to get this if you don't have a layer which is locked in this manner.
Yeah I know "Flatten image" works as this will get you this type of layer, but it also kills all your layers you have. A dangerous action as you might accidentally save the work file in this flattened state.
A quite hacky workaround is duplicating your documents layers into a new document in order to get a the desired locked "background" layer. But there must be a better way.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
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Thanks Frankie.