It seems it’s possible to move an entire layer of multiple layers―with multiple layers selected in the layers docker―, but it’s not possible to move a specific area(of multiple layers) selected with a selection tool.
I can workaround it by using transform tool instead, but I’d like to be able to simply move the selected area of multiple layers.
This request is not understandable at all.
Could you anwser the following Questions:
What do you want to do exactly ?
Could you explain your workflow step by step?
What is the wanted outcome?
For example:
As a user I want to be able to select an area over multiple layers and move the selection with the “move” tool.
My workflow:
Draw on layer 1,
Add new layer (2),
Draw on layer 2
repeat step 2 and 3, 5 Times
Select an area
Select all Layer
Use the move-tool
Expected Behaviour:
Only the selection is moved
Current Behaviour:
All selected Layers are moved
As anwser for the given example, if that is what you wanted to have:
You can put multiple layers into a group.
When you select an area you can select the group-layer in the layers-docker and use the transform-tool.
Now you can move the selection in all layer within the group
As a user, I want to be able to select an area, and select multiple layers in the layers docker, and move them with Move tool at once. In short, I want to move a selected area of multiple layers at once.
The current behavior is that the move tool cannot move the selected area of multiple layers, but either the selected area of a single layer or the entire layer data of multiple layers(without selection). Even if I put them inside a group, it still doesn’t do the job, unless I use the transform tool.
I see what you mean. It is true, that it is confusing.
And if the transform tool can do it, why does the move tool can not?
I do agree, that that it is annoying. But I never use the move tool. I do not know why it is even there, because the transform-tool does it all.
Therefore I would like to suggest, the removal of that move tool, adding “move without transforming” to the transform tool, as tool preference and setting it as default preference. Basically merging both tools into one. And it would be nice, if the tranform tool could remember my last preference I used, when using the transform tool.