How to Display Just the Content in Photoshop’s Layer Thumbnails
Learn how to change the Photoshop’s layer thumbnail preferences to display only the content from each layer in the thumbnail.
In this Illustrator how-to video, Khara Plicanic lets us in on a very helpful Photoshop Layers panel hack. By default, thumbnails in the Layers panel show the entire artboard area. Khara shows us how to change the preference to display only the content from each layer in the thumbnail.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on November 12, 2024
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