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1. Re: How to drag multiple layers to a new tab?
gener7 May 28, 2013 1:00 AM (in response to Guy Burns)I don't know of a simple drop and drag,but I have tried this method in CS6 (Mac) and it does work.
Select layers to be copied in the Layers panel
Right click on the selected layers.click Duplicate Layers from the context menu
Select destination as what ever document you have open in PS
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2. Re: How to drag multiple layers to a new tab?
PECourtejoie May 28, 2013 2:56 AM (in response to Guy Burns)Hello, you cannot drag from the layers panel, this has been requested several times already.
BUT, you can do it from the document itself. The explanation seems long, but it is an easy finger gym, once you've done it a few times.
You can switch temporarily to the move tool by holding the CTRL key (on a PC, CMD on a Mac).
Right-click when doing so gives you a list of the layers located under the cursor.
You can then target a first adjustment layer.
Continue holding CTRL or CMD, and add the SHIFT key. (Usually, Shift means "add" in Photoshop and in other programs) and right-click to add other adjustment layers to the targeted list.
Keep holding the CTRL(PC)/CMD(Mac) key, and drag the targeted layers to the tab of the other document, wait for Photoshop to switch to that one, and release the mouse on top of your canvas. (holding the shift key ensures centering of the layers)
Basically, CTRL+SHIFT+Right-click on a PC, CTRL+CMD+SHIFT on a Mac, then CTRL+drag.
You can remove the CTRL/CMD key if you switch to the move tool altogether.
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3. Re: How to drag multiple layers to a new tab?
Trevor.Dennis May 28, 2013 2:59 AM (in response to gener7)gener7 wrote:
I don't know of a simple drop and drag,but I have tried this method in CS6 (Mac) and it does work.
Select layers to be copied in the Layers panel
Right click on the selected layers.click Duplicate Layers from the context menu
Select destination as what ever document you have open in PS
DoneCool tip gener7. One of these days I am going to take the time to go right through the menus, and context menus, to discover all those little things that have been there for ages, but I was always in too much of a rush to notice.
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4. Re: How to drag multiple layers to a new tab?
PECourtejoie May 28, 2013 3:18 AM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)Yes, I forgot to add"besides the excellent method provided by Gener7" on my first line.
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5. Re: How to drag multiple layers to a new tab?
Guy Burns May 28, 2013 8:50 AM (in response to gener7)Thanks gener7. That's the solution.
I'd like to know the answer to two things that I came across while playing with dragging layers. And they are not readily repeatable, but they definitely did exist for a while.
1. Most of the time I can drag multiple layers from a Source image (tabbed) to an Destination image (not tabbed). But I gave up on that today (thus my post) because sometimes when I did so, the layers in the Destination suddenly had a mask applied to a part of the layer, so that the adjustment layers only worked on part of the Destination image. Given that no mask was in the Source layers, where did this mask come from?
2. Sometimes when I dragged a layer from one tabbed image to another, I would see a pale-orange wash sweep from the right to the left of the image as I dragged the layer. What was that?