I wonder if someone can help.
You know when you have a layout with several pictures in it, to move each picture or element I have to click on its layer in the layer pallete to move/adjust it BUT I'm sure (unless it was a very vivid dream) that once all I had to do was move my move tool over the part of the layout I was fiddling with and that layer was automatically highlighted and the bounding box on the element/photo moved to the thing I'd selected.

Does this make ANY sense?

Anyway, does anyone know how I did it as it was really handy when fiddling with a layout with lots of photos/elements.

Many thanks

Make sure you have the auto selection box checked.

DUUUUUHHHH!!!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!( you won't believe how long I've been doing it without that box checked...i hadn't even noticed it!!)

is this feature in Photoshop, or are you using different software?

I never paid attention to that little box. I have been wasting my time clicking on each layer every time I wanted to do something with it.

Wewh, thanks so much Amanda. I didn't even think to ask cause mine had never been checked.

What a time saver!!!! YEE HAW!

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what little box? I use PS 8, and am not familiar with that feature.

When you click on the move tool at the top of the screen there are two boxes

1. Auto Select Layer
2. Show bounding box.

WOW! that is SO cool! Always something new to learn in PS! Thanks!