How do I control
what’s affected by
a layer change?

It's important to keep in mind what we learned in the last lesson: to make a rollover effect, you can hide or show a layer, change or add layer styles, move a layer, change a layer's opacity, or change a layer's blending mode. However, changes you make using painting and editing tools, color and tone commands, filters, type, and other image-editing commands, will have a universal effect on your image, rather than applying to just the selected rollover.

If the Normal state is selected in the Rollover palette when you make a rollover effect, the change takes effect for the Normal state across all rollovers. If any other state is selected, the change takes place only for the selected state on the current rollover.

If you want the rollover effect to apply to all states of a rollover, do the following:

1) Select the layer you want to change.

2) Select the desired rollover.

3) Make the desired changes to the layer.

4) While the layer is still selected, choose the Match Layer Across States command from the Rollover palette menu:

If you want the rollover effect to apply to all states of all rollovers, do the following:

1) Select the layer you want to change.

3) Make the desired changes to the layer.

4) While the layer is still selected, choose the Match Layer Across All Rollovers command from the Rollover palette menu:

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