Change Layers without Going to the Layers Panel?

Use this shortcut: Press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key and, in the image itself, click on something on the layer you want to jump to (as shown above), and it makes that layer active. It’s as easy as that. Note: The only time this doesn’t work is if you have the opacity of a layer set really, really low, like below 30%. When you Command-click, that less-than-30% area won’t have enough opacity to register as a layer. This probably won’t happen to you—if it does, it will be very rare—but at least you’ll know why, if one day it doesn’t work.