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Shortcuts for copying layers and layer style effects - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: Intermediate
Shortcuts for copying layers and layer style effects
In the previous installment in this series, Photoshop for photographer's fundamentals, we introduced how to work with layers. Here, I want to build upon what we already know, and dig a bit deeper. And in this movie in particular, I want to talk about how we can start to duplicate or copy layers. And I also want to take a look at a few shortcuts that we can use in order to duplicate or copy Layer Style effects from one layer to another. Alright. Well, here in the layers panel, you can see that we have multiple layers. Let's go ahead and click in the top layer, which is the text layer here. Now, we've already talked about a few techniques that you can use in order to duplicate or copy a layer. Let me first review what we already know. We can click into a layer, and click and drag it to the new layer icon, and that will give us a copy version of that layer. So, now we have two versions of this text layer. To delete a layer, press the Delete key, or the Mac Space key. Another technique…
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Shortcuts for copying layers and layer style effects6m 1s
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Changing fill and opacity2m 54s
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Creating layer clipping masks3m 37s
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Using layers to create a two-image layout7m 10s
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Shortcuts for creating new layers2m 22s
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Increasing the size of the Layers panel2m 18s
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Selecting layers with more speed3m 25s
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An advanced way to select and reorder layers3m 10s
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Merging and flattening layers down3m 44s
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Merging all layers to the top1m 47s
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