Copy drag within a layer

To copy an object you can use Alt + the move tool and drag. This creates a new layer. I want to copy objects by dragging within a layer but can't remember the shortcut! Anyone know?
I know if you hit Alt + Shift + Arrow an object will copy within a layer....but you can't manipulate its position as fast as you can if you were using the move tool.
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Select first, then Control-Alt and drag.
-Noel

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I have Googled this but not a single answer seems to work.
I am using Photoshop CS4 on OS X 10.6.7.
OK, so I have a layer that has some text in it. I would like to be able to simply copy that text from one layer to another, but this seems to be impossible as the Edit Paste menu item is grayed out after I have copied it in to the clipboard. I can paste it into the SAME layer, but not into another layer.
This is how I am trying to do this.
In the layer with the text, click on the "T" icon to the left.
Click on the text, in the layer that I want to copy.
I select the text (either by clicking and dragging or pressing Command-A).
Next I press Command-C.
Then I click on the layer In the Layer Panel) where I want to paste the text.
Pressing Command-V is impossible because the Edit-Paste menu option is grayed out!!!!
WHY??????
Perhaps more importantly, HOW do I copy text from one layer to another?

First thing you can simply right click on the Text Layer and choose Duplicate Layer. But that will create a new Text Lay
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To answer your question in your case.... Create the Text Layer. Make a New Layer. Or have the layer you want to paste into visible.
Highlight the text layer in the Layer Palette and Ctrl+Click (Win) Cmd+Click(Mac) so that you see marching ants walking around your text.
Edit>Copy.
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There seem to at least three ways to get an external 3D model into a document:
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2. New Layer from 3D File.
3. Drag a 3D layer from another document.
The third way has a problem associated with it that doesn't seem to be documented: Unlike the first two, when you do this one, the results depend on where you release the mouse cursor. The worst part is that unless you happened to drop it at the center of the document, you can get some very non-intuitive behavior:
When you zoom the camera in the Camera Tool (N), the center of the image does not stay fixed as it does with a real camera. This leads to real problems in positioning the camera to get the view you want.
The orthogonal camera views (Left, Top, etc.) normally adjust to show the image centered in the view. They do not in this case. The Top view, for example, shows the red and green axes as crossing somewhere besides the center and perhaps even not inside the view. The model is not centered.
For a given camera elevation and azimuth, you should be able to calculate where to place the camera and how to rotate it so that it points at, say, the origin. If you do this correctly, it will work in the first two cases, but not the third.
It can be a gotcha. The documentation Combine 3D objects (Photoshop Extended) has explict directions for the steps you should take but does not mention this effect. The effect is especially apparent and non-intuitive when the camera is near or in the model, and as it would turn out, that was the situation in my first real project with Photoshop 3D. It took me a long time (weeks) to figure out what was happening, and I still have some remaining lack of understanding.
In case you don't want to read further, let me say that you can avoid this problem by using Shift-drag or Layer | Duplicate Layer. Both of these center the 3D object in the layer, and the camera works as you would expect a 3D camera to work. (The documentation should say this rather than what it does say.)
It doesn't seem to be a bug, and the implementation is probably logical, but it needs to be documented. I am not sure of the best way to help this happen. Perhaps someone can suggest the most effective way to go about it.
This is what I have learned the hard way.
It works just the same as dropping an image on a layer. You can use the Move Tool (V) to move the image around and can use Free Transform (Ctrl-T or Command-T) to move, resize, or distort it. In addition, Free Transform will show you the numeric values of where the image is located, how it is sized, etc. This is true of other Photoshop objects in a layer as well, not just images.
It is, in fact, apparently using the same mechanism as it does for all objects. The problem is that this is a 2D concept and doesn't play well with the 3D object. For a 3D object by itself, what you see is determined by the camera and model positions.
These, in fact, stay with the 3D object in the layer as you move it around. However, the camera is aimed relative to the 3D object whereas what you see is a combination of this and the location of the 3D object in the 2D layer of the document. For example if your 3D object is moved to the lower right of the document, then all of the Top, Left, Front, etc. views will show it in the lower right. This is probably not what you would expect, at first anyway.
The numeric values of the location of an object in a layer are given in pixels. The locations of things in the model inside the 3D object are in terms of its dimensions (inches, meters, etc.) even though the units are not necessarily known).
I do not yet know what algorithm Photoshop uses to determine the end result of what you see. They don't even document their 3D coordinate system, much less this. I have been able to determine fairly well what the coordinate system must be, but I haven't figured out how it gets mixed in with the location in the 2D layer.
I also have not yet figured out how to get the numeric values for where the object is located in the layer. The free transform values always indicate it is the same size as the layer and centered. It will always render to fill the document window, in any event. If someone knows how to get the numeric values, I would appreciate the information. It is necessary if you want to do accurate placement as for an engineering or architectural model.
An upside is that this can be a powerful feature if you learn to control it. I am reasonably sure you can get views of your model that are not possible using the 3D camera and object tools alone. I think this because I spent a lot of time trying to position an object in a tutorial so it looked like the example given. I was not able to do this with the camera controls alone and was only successful after moving the layer, once I learned the above.
Thanks in advance for any further insight into this issue.

I ran into this to...it has to do with the way the player
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What is the format used on the external HD?
You did format it for Mac use (HFS+), right?
Yes, the external drive was reformatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) before being brought into use. I have several LaCie drives in different sizes from 250 Gb and up for back ups and never had an issue until now...
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How to cycle thru blend modes within the Layer Style dialog??

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That's a good point.
I guess that Multiply (for Shadow) and Screen (for Glow) are really the "go to" blends for these effects, and including any other options beyond those is all just gravy.
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Dear Photoshop Scripting Forum:
I have written a script to isolate the number histogram pixels for each channel within each layer of a file.
However, I have found some unexpected results: That, the number of pixels is the same for each channel within each layer.
For example,
Layer 1 has 18,979 pixels by itself, and so does each channel within it (Red, Green, and Blue)
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This does not seem right to me.
Does someone else have the same experience, or knowledge of something else?
I am wondering if there is a bug in my script.
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The following is for RGB 8bit images.
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But even if you know that all the pixels in a layer are all in the last element(255) of the red histogram you still don't know the color of the pixels. A white pixel has a red value of 255. So does a yellow, magenta, etc pixel. If you only know the red value of a pixel the pixel could be one of over 65000 colors. Most of which would not be considerd 'red'
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Hello dear scripters.
I'm trying to count the layers within a precomposed layer.
has somebody a solution for my problem?
Thnx a lot.
:F
This is my code:
var curComp = app.project.activeItem; // this is my acive comp
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Great. That works.
Thnx again for your help Dan.
:F
Here is the working code.
It takes a selection of comps in the active comp.
Enables timeremapping.
Adds a null as controller with some sliders.
And adds an expression to the timeremapping
this just works with CompItems.
It is usefull if the layers in the comps are sequenced with one frame length
// written by fabiantheblind
// http://www.the-moron.net
// with a hint by Dan E.
// http://forums.adobe.com/message/3310628#3310628
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You haven't said what version of Windows you're running.
You don't need to do anything special to create a crash log; all versions of Windows keep this information already in logs. These logs typically keep information a long time, possibly all the way back to your installation of Windows.
What you want to do is to get into the Windows Event Viewer. On a modern system you can hit Start then type event log into the search box, then when View event logs comes up, click it.
A Photoshop crash will be in the Windows Logs - Application section as an Application Error.
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-Noel

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