Photoshop's Lesser Known 75 Tips - Copying Tips

The copying technique can be dragged from one document to another using the Marquee Tool [M] or the Polygonal Lasso.

When dragging a selection area or layer from one document to another, hold down the Shift key to center it on the destination document.

Tip: If the source document and destination document have the same size (size), the dragged element will be placed in the same place as the source document (rather than in the center of the canvas).

Note: If the destination document contains a selection, the dragged element will be placed in the center of the selection.

When you want to move multiple layers between different documents, link them first, and then you can use the mobile tool to drag multiple layers simultaneously between documents.

Note: You can't drag multiple layers to another document at the same time in the layers panel (even if they are linked) - this will only move the selected layers.

The quickest way to organize multiple layers into a group is to link them together and then select the Group Link Layer command [Ctrl+G] (Layer » Group linked ). You can then cancel the link as you wish.

Note: This technique can also be used to merge [Ctrl+E] (Layer » Merge Down) multiple visible layers (since the “with Group with previous” command changes when the current layer has links to other layers. Create a "Group linked" command).

There is a clever way to rearrange multiple layers at the same time (in the layer panel): First, link the desired layer to Group [Ctrl+G] (Layer » Group with Previous) and drag it to a new place in the layer pane. Then cancel the grouping.

To create a duplicate document for the current history state or snapshot (Window » Show History) you can:

a) Click on the "New document" button from the current state b) From the history panel menu Select new document in c) Drag current state (or snapshot) to "Create new document from current state" button d) Right click on the desired state (or snapshot) Select new document from the popup menu

Dragging a historical state of the current picture in the historical state to a window of another picture can change the content of the destination picture.

Hold down the Alt key to click on any of the history states (in addition to the current, recent state) to copy it. Then the copied state becomes the current (most recent) state.

Hold down the Alt dragging action to copy it to another action.


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Note 1: Some of the obvious errors in the original text were corrected and passed during the translation process.