Comments on: Dragging Between Tabs in CS4

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:07:03 +0000

Works for me (CS4 OS 10.6) but you need a bit of patience.. Takes a couple of seconds to respond I found.

By: Tassu

Tassu — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:46:09 +0000

Tim`s method works cs4, even adjustment layers can drag to another tab.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:49:01 +0000

To make this work in CS5, do as follows:

-With move tool (V) active, click within the open document (not in the layers panel) on the layer that you with to move.
-Drag the layer and hover over the tab of the document you want to mave the layer to.
-Hold it over the tab until it is highlighted and the target document becomes visible.
-While still holding the mouse down, now drag the layer over the open target
document and then release the mouse. Bingo!

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:58:16 +0000

This seems to at least partially work in CS5. As Jamie said, you have to select the Move tool and then click on the layer to be moved in the Canvas. You then drag it up to the tab and it will switch. You cannot drag layer from the stack between open canvas as you used to be able to…. my solution is to disable tabs.

These poorly implemented tabs are yet another example of Adobe just sleeping on their photo editing monopoly.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:45:33 +0000

it doesnt work for me either on a pc. The tab just doesnt highlight. Still have to float the canvas before dragging the layer. Its a little aggravating.

By: Fer

Fer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:31:47 +0000

Doesn’t work for me, either…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:14:37 +0000

You have to grab the actual layer in the document window… for some reason you can’t grab the layer in the floating layers pallet. Lame.

By: Tino

Tino — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:25:42 +0000

Does not work for me with PS CS4 on latest Mac Leopard. Any ideas?