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Copy A Layer In The Same Location In Another Document

 

To make a copy of your current layer and have it appear in the exact location in a different Photoshop document, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on the layer in the Layers palette that you want to copy, and choose Duplicate Layer. When the Duplicate Layer dialog appears, choose the Destination from the Document pop-up menu, and click OK.

10 Comments

  1. Chris Lee said on — August 25, 2008 @ 12:56 am

    Thanks for your tips. It’s really helpful!

  2. Adrian Isén said on — June 27, 2009 @ 12:55 am

    Thanks, That really did help ^^

  3. Auty said on — October 6, 2009 @ 1:41 pm

    Legend! – Thanks mate!

  4. Jchasse said on — February 1, 2010 @ 5:56 pm

    DOH!

    May you wake up every morning to the smell of choclate chip cookies baking.

    txu VERY much

  5. Lars Öberg said on — June 16, 2010 @ 10:57 am

    Tack! Your tip made my day.

  6. Tony A said on — August 22, 2010 @ 6:41 pm

    This tip helped me so much. Thanks a million!

  7. Wyant McAvoy said on — December 2, 2010 @ 3:04 pm

    Thanks! process worked as described.

  8. David Wiles said on — December 9, 2010 @ 9:40 am

    Thanks for the tip, it really helped!

  9. Caleb Jacob said on — March 24, 2011 @ 9:22 pm

    Aha! Thanks so much! :)

  10. Daniel said on — May 4, 2011 @ 3:55 pm

    Thank you!

    This tip saved my night!

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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