How do you select everything in a layer?

I have a layer of different colors spread out across a drawing and i was wondering if there was an easy way to select everything in that layer - thanks for any help!

RTFM! lol


(CTRL+A?)

But CTRL+A selects everything on the screen. I thought there was a command that automatically selects everything on the layer you are working on...no?

you can CTRL+Click the layer in the layermenu.

CTRL+A selects the whole screen, but in practice activates everything on that layer, not other layers.

COOL! That CTRL+click on layer in menu did the trick! Thanks!

Sorry if my question was way too silly - i'm just getting started on this program!

I'm not even sure why it works, but I think if you click CTRL-A and then up and down it selects the current selected layer. It's kinda a foolish way of doing it, but I've read some tutorials where that is what they tell you to do.

go figure

tom

Originally posted by trhaynes
I'm not even sure why it works, but I think if you click CTRL-A and then up and down it selects the current selected layer. It's kinda a foolish way of doing it, but I've read some tutorials where that is what they tell you to do.

go figure

tom

when you click Ctrl+A- the entire canvas is selected - when you push Up and Down you nudge the selection - but since the layer is (presumably) not occupying the entire surface of the canvas the actual object on the layer gets nudged (and selected)....