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Three ways to copy and paste layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Fundamentals
Three ways to copy and paste layers
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at three different ways to copy and paste layers from one image into another. The first of which is to literally copy and paste. And so notice that I've added some text to this document along with this shape layer, which happens to be a black rectangle set to an opacity value of 50%. And I want to take those two layers and I want to move them into my composition so far. Well, they happened to be exactly the same size which helps ensure that we'll get the proper placement. So I'll go ahead and switch over to my image that contains the text and then I'll click on the bar layer to select it and I'll shift + click on the make a Shark's Day layer in order to add it to the selection. So I now have two layers selected here inside the layers panel. And now I'll go up to the Edit menu and I'll choose the Copy command or I could just press Control + C or Command + C on the Mac, then…
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The layered composition1m 42s
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Introducing the Layers panel5m 18s
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Converting the flat Background to a layer4m 54s
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Jumping an image onto a new layer3m 28s
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Flipping and scaling a layer2m 53s
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Adding a vector-based layer2m 11s
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Creating a basic layer mask6m 15s
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Clipping one layer inside another4m 3s
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Merging two layers into one4m 58s
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Auto Select and the Move tool3m 41s
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Inverting a layer mask4m 51s
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Adding depth with layer effects4m 9s
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Softening a mask with Feather2m 47s
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Three ways to copy and paste layers4m 54s
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Auto-zooming one or more layers2m 38s
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