Please add "layer" like designer/publisher to photos

[Distill7]

First, let me explain the difference between the "layer" function in designer/publisher, and the "group layer" function in photo

– Designer/Publisher "layers" which have the subname (layer) in them, work as a grouping layer, but the advantage is each time you click on a sub-layer inside them from the canvas, you only select that sub-layer.

– Photo doesn't have a way to create this same "layer" in it, it has a "group" layer that can be creating when selecting one or two layers, and it works as the name says by grouping them.

The problem "group layer" is whenever you click on a layer on the canvas, it select the whole group, then you have to double click or control+left click the sub-layer, it usually never works if I have multiple stacked layers with transparencies, the other solution is to select them from the layer panel directly. This still adds extra unnecessary steps, especially if you need to fine tune some layers a lot.

I can go to file > Edit in Designer..., create one "layer" and go to file > Edit in Photo... And this has become the 1st step in every file I create in photo, and it's really annoying and time wasting if I have to do it multiple times a day.

The other work around is to add one "layer" after I create it in designer to the assets panel, but I had problems with some sub-layers position changing and disappearing, especially text and curves.

The "Group Layers" icon at the bottom is redundant, because you can group layers with Control+G. The normal "layer" function would be of better use.

[fde101]

In the interim, you can select an object from inside a group by command-clicking on it (Mac - not sure what the Windows key is for that, maybe control?).  After that you can directly select other objects from within the same group.

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, fde101 said:

(Mac - not sure what the Windows key is for that, maybe control?)

Yes, Ctrl+Click works on Windows.

[Distill7]

2 hours ago, fde101 said:

In the interim, you can select an object from inside a group by command-clicking on it (Mac - not sure what the Windows key is for that, maybe control?).  After that you can directly select other objects from within the same group.

I know you can that, I mentioned it in my article, but it gets really annoying if you have to do it a couple of hundreds of times in a document.