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Delete a Layer in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how you can delete a layer in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7.

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To begin, we should have Photoshop opened
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This can be seen at the bottom by the blue icon with the letters "PS".

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Once Photoshop is opened, we can either create a new document or open an existing one
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There are VisiHow videos on how to do that. Once we open or create a document, the screen will look similar to the one in the tutorial. We can see that we have just one document opened, which is indicated by one tab at the left-hand side. If we have more than one document opened, then the documents will be listed at the tab section from left to right.

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Come to the layer options at the right-hand side
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In this video, we have three layers.
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If we hide the top layer, we can see that the layer underneath is exactly the same
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Maybe we don't want to keep it.

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We can see that even though the top layer is hidden, we can still click it to see it highlighted in the layer window
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We have to be careful when we are doing this lest we delete the wrong layer.
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For now, we make the top layer visible
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The image will not look any different because the layer is identical.

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We can click the "Delete Layer" icon in the very bottom right-hand corner
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The icon is a dust bin. If we click it once, Photoshop will double-check with us if we want to delete the layer.
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We can click "No" if we want to keep the layer
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We can specify "Don't show again" if we don't want Photoshop to double-check with us in the future
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If we click "Yes", then our top layer will be removed
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Another way to delete a layer is clicking the layer so that it is highlighted in blue
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Then, we just press "Delete" on our keyboard. Photoshop will not double-check with us. We will see the layer completely gone without any warning.
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