Photoshop tip finding that one layer without turning them off one at a time!
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I just realized this, sorry if I am the last person on earth to start using this workflow.
Hold ctrl and right click some pixels in your open document that has multiple layers. It will show a pop up with that layer's name that your mouse pointer is over. Select the layer name from the pop up and it selects that layer in the layer's palette. Works with overlapping layers. It is also additive selection if you hold ctrl + shift for the next layer so you can get multiple layer selections. This just changed my life forever in Photoshop. I'm in CS4 not sure if it works in previous versions.
Hold ctrl and right click some pixels in your open document that has multiple layers. It will show a pop up with that layer's name that your mouse pointer is over. Select the layer name from the pop up and it selects that layer in the layer's palette. Works with overlapping layers. It is also additive selection if you hold ctrl + shift for the next layer so you can get multiple layer selections. This just changed my life forever in Photoshop. I'm in CS4 not sure if it works in previous versions.
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another obvious tip: pressing alt and leftclicking a leyer toggles all other layers off.
Thanks for the tip, I don't know why Adobe changed it!
One thing that bothers me is that the ctrl+move tool click on a layer does not work if they are nested in groups. The ctrl+right click works fine even when nested.