“Assign a color to a layer or group” doesn’t work for me.  Layer Properties is not present in my Layers menu or Layers Panel menu, and Alt-double-clicking just opens the Layer Style panel.

I’m using Photoshop CS6.  I posted this from the CS6 help page, so it didn’t occur to me to mention the version.

Ctrl-clicking a layer in the Layers Panel has no effect.  Ctrl-double-clicking opens the Layer Styles dialog.

My Layers Panel menu has some of the items in the screenshot, but not the color selections.

Photoshop CS6 help has a different layout from CS5 and earlier.  At the bottom of each page is a link titled, “Discuss this page.”  I made my original post from the page titled, “Managing Layers,”  which describes assigning colors to layers.

except if you have the effects expanded and ctrl-click within the area below the layer name, then you don't get the color label options

Or are problems like these just a result of copying the help files and neglecting to update specific things?

 

-Noel

The help pages are often directed to both CS5 and CS6. The new CS6 PDF even has a section "what's new in CS5". It's referred to as the new CS6 help documentation so I guess it is all that is going to be offered.

The PDF version of the Photoshop CS6 Help documentation is now available for download. You can click the "CS6 Help PDF (20 MB)" link here:

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop.html

With the end of the paper manual, it may be that there is no longer a deadline since PDFs and help pages are somewhat fluid.

There haven't been that many changes to CS6, so a working manual should be doable.

Take a look at the Illustrator CS6 manual. At least an effort was made to populate it with screenshots of CS6, but I have no idea whether the text also was updated.

In contrast, the Photoshop CS6 manual is the CS5.1 manual with old text and blurry screenshots plus a handful of introductory pages about CS6.

I'll take this one to the team as well.

Thanks.

I appreciate your effort, but quite frankly I am disappointed in how the documentation has turned out with CS6 and the new multi-version approach so far.

Links to video tutorials are nice but dropping a concise and up-to-date write-up seems less than ideal.

Hi Brett

>This time however, we are behind schedule.

I assume this means that the documentation is not done and what we have is a preliminary work in progress?

When this was posted "The PDF version of the Photoshop CS6 Help documentation is now available for download."  Everyone assumed it was complete.

I think what everyone is asking is what we should expect from the CS6 help when it is completed. Will it be like previous PDFs? I didn't see my CS5's help PDF on my desktop but I did pull the one from CS4. This was a typical document with a table of contents, adequate screen grabs etc.  Is this what the CS6 help will look like?

This time however, we are behind schedule.

And there may well be valid reasons for that.

But what with the lay-offs and Adobe management squandering good-will with the upgrade-hullaballoo I am afraid many of us customers may currently be quite willing to suspect the worst …