
Not only that, you can do other selection tricks, like filter layers by specific names, which is actually the real purpose for supporting this. I suppose this change isn’t absolutely necessary as a requirement for everyone, but I feel that it’s a lot more convenient to specify the name of a layer that’s easily cross-referenced by human eyes in the Photoshop file, as opposed to having to count what index is required in the layer stack. To export a layer, you have to use the index rather than the name of the layer. This is another feature that I was expecting to use in ImageMagick that isn’t actually there.


This is a no-go for my purposes, because I need to later re-composite the layers, and if each output layer is a different size, they can’t be easily merged back together. Irregular Alpha Images when Extracting Layers from Photoshop with ImageMagick
