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How to Unlock Background? - Photoshop

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Question added by Jithu George , AutoCAD Draftsman & Interior Designer , Royal Commission for Jubail
Date Posted: 2014/09/21
Hardik Miyani
by Hardik Miyani , Technical Support Engineer , Vedang Cellular Services Pvt. Ltd.

Steps to Unlock layer :

1) Select Background Layer from Layers

2) You Will Find a LOCK Symbol on Thumbnail of Background Layer. Double Click on it

3) Now Press OK. It Will Convert your Background into a New Layer.

Enjoy. :)

 

irfan shaikh
by irfan shaikh , Consultant : Senior Web Designer/Front end Developer , Client : ● Impact Proximity, Dubai ● Cube Solution, Dubai ● WAC, Sharjha ● KIOEC, Kuwait ● IRIS Ltd.

Background layer lock by default just duplicate the background layer & you good to go to edit it.

Sameer Aftab Sial
by Sameer Aftab Sial , Resident Architect , ... for Ministry of Climate Change and Environment

Double click the background layer and you will get it unlocked.

Muzafar Zafar
by Muzafar Zafar , Creative Graphic Designer , MA Group DMCC

Right Click on Background and Select Layer Properties  

Mostafa El Noby
by Mostafa El Noby , Photo Editing Instructor , Adasa Photography Club

double click on the Background layer will unlock it 

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Just double click on it, that'll do the trick

Usman Naeem Khokhar
by Usman Naeem Khokhar , Growth Hacker (Itchy Fingerz) , NetSol Technologies

1) On the left side of the photoshop CC software you have the left panels bar.

2) Click the button that looks like 2 diamonds together.

3) The "Layers" panel will appear on your left side. Showing the background layer at the very last.

4) There is a small lock icon on that layer on its right side in the layers panel.

5) Click on the lock to show an unlock icon.

Ajmal Khan
by Ajmal Khan , UI designer , TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD (TCS)

just click lock icon on the background layer on layer pallete 

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