Duplicate layers into a different file results in blank layers

[caitlynd92024350]

I am trying to duplicate layers from a photoshop file into a smart object and it results in blank layers & a blank mask like this:

I tried to duplicate into a different regular PSD and also got blank layers. This is what they look like before I duplicate:

Does anyone know why this is happening? I've tried duplicating them individually which didn't help, and I checked that the documents are compatible and everything is the same. There is a path on the image, I'm not sure if that's relevant but I'm trying to give as much info as possible. Thanks!

[JJMack]

caitlynd92024350  wrote

I am trying to duplicate layers from a photoshop file into a smart object

Should be easy.  Here I target three layers in the layers palette and dragged them to the add new layer icon in the layer palette. That duplicated the layers and they were targeted I right clicked and selected convert to smart object.

[caitlynd92024350]

Thanks for your response! But it looks like maybe my question got cut off, I'm having an issue where when I duplicate the layers into a different file (in this case it was a smart object but I tried it in a regular PSD also) they show up blank.

[JJMack · Accepted solution]

Photoshop is not a file editor Photoshop edits documents and it easy to copy layer between documents. There are more than one way to do it so here is one way.