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In Adobe Photoshop is there a way to have multiple layers selected and then delete pixels in a selection from them?
The closest I could think of is to add them to a group and apply a mask created from the selection, but my preference is to destructively delete.
Alternately perhaps there's a way to program an action to do this but I'm not certain.
Is there a native easy way or are there any recommendations on how to approach this?
In Photoshop, you can select the pixels and then hit delete (or use a mask by making it black), select another layer from the menu that lists the layers without deselecting and do the same again for the next layer. That selection will then be affecting the layers you selected one by one. I'm also guessing you can do them all at once.
Here's an example of what I mean:
Delete.. next layer below.. repeat...
or ....
Del then Option/Alt+] - repeat...
You could create and action so the shortcut to do both steps is merely a single F-key.
Or one could create an action to loop the steps and walk down layers -
but it would be difficult to stop if you didn't want to delete from all layers below.
