Sampling from all layers

By default, when working with the magic wand, smudge, blur, sharpen, or clone stamp tool, you are applying color sampled only from pixels on the active layer. This means you can smudge or sample in a single layer even when other layers are visible, and you can sample from one layer and paint in another one.

Alternatively, you can choose to paint using sampled data from all the visible layers. For example, you can use the clone stamp tool to clone an area containing pixels from all the visible layers.

To sample from all visible layers:

1 Select the magic wand tool (), smudge tool (), blur tool (), sharpen tool (), or clone stamp tool ().

2 In the options bar, select Use All Layers.

Using Layers > Editing layers > Sampling from all layers