Do you know this?

I wouldn't usually blog about a simple tool in Photoshop, but knowing this years prior would've saved me years off my life, and quite possibly half a head of hair. If you've always been too lazy to name your Photoshop layers (like me) and instead found yourself creating an abundance of unnamed layers (like me) thus forcing you to resort to lame hiding / unhiding techniques to identify layers (like me) than BEHOLD YOUR SAVIOR!

With the move tool selected, simply do the following:

RIGHT CLICK THE LAYER!

The following dialog box will pop up showing you a hierarchy of layers in which you can select. Upon clicking one, the corresponding layer will be selected in your Layers list. Amazing!



Now if I had only known that at a much earlier age... hopefully you discover this solution sooner than I did.