Duplicate Layer Question

I have (long) been making a duplicate layer of a file (photo) that is cropped to the size that I want. I place the layer on a "blank" image that is larger than the layer (e.g. 8x10 duplicate layer placed on an 11x14 image blank). I do this so that I can have the effect of a matte around the image. This is a pretty common technique for most persons. However, just recently the duplicatte layer has been resizing to the size of the image blank (i.e., 7x9 duplicate layer resizing to 8x10, which is the size of the image blank). I have no idea why this is happening and I am not able to get it to work as it always has in the past. How do I get this to work again. (CS6, Windows 7, 64 bit). Thanks.

It seems like a faster workflow would be to just expand the canvas (Image > Canvas Size). This would give you the same effect.
However, for what you are seeing, how are you moving the duplicate layer to the new image? Drag and drop? Copy/paste? Layer > Duplicate Layer with the new document as the Destination?
From how you describe things, my best guess is that you are copy/pasting and that the pasted layer is coming in as a Smart Object, which is auto-filling the available space.
If you could make a video recording of your process, it could probably provide a lot of clues.

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I am trying to replicate the Photoshop function of "Duplicate Layer" where I can take a layer from an active document and duplicate it to a target document AND set the name of the new layer once it is copied.
Javascript is the language.
Windows CS4 if it matters.
Any suggested code snippets?
Thanks
-Mike

This will dupe the activeDocument to a new document.
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In CS4, what is the practical difference between:
Layer via Copy (Layer > New > Layer via Copy - or Ctrl/J)
and
Duplicate layer (Layer > Duplicate Layer).
Asked another way: when are they NOT interchangeable.

If you want to duplicate a layer to another document, they are not interchangeable. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure they are.
With smart objects, new layer via copy tears off the smart object from other duplicates, so edits made to smart object A do not get copied to smart object B. If you just make a duplicate smart object, then when you edit A you edit B as well.

Duplicate layer dialog box

in config. i want to have a DUPLICATE LAYER button just
immediately create a duplicate layer, so its a oneclick process,
but instead it pops up a dialog box for me to name the new layer,
which i dont want to do, and it makes config. not be more efficient
then dragging a layer to the new layer icon in my layers panel to
create a duplicate layer.
does someone know what extra coding i could add, or whatever
it takes so that a DUPLICATE LAYER button in config. will
immediately add a dup layer?
tx for any input
gg

ahh, thats perfect! thank you greatly, so now i know anytime
i want to supress dialogs just to change the DialogModes
thats handy and i hope it helps others anytime they need to
supress dialogs (perhaps a checkbox option to automatically enable
things in configurator to show dialogs or supress them would be
handy).
now if you can figure the puzzle of how to add extra
keystrokes to commands as i am now trying to get the MERGE VISIBLE
to work with an extra ALT keystroke so i can have it do a MERGE
VISIBLE ON NEW LAYER instead of MERGE VISIBLE (converting a
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gg

Making edits to a duplicate layer?

When working with healing brush or other tools on a portrait, what is the point of duplicating the layer and working on the duplicate layer? I understand that if I mess up I can throw the duplicate layer away, though now I have two duplicate layers. Is there a way to merge the two layers together? Maybe do some editing on one layer and more editing on the other layer, and when done, somehow have the layer underneath the top layer show through?
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Has anyone else experienced this dilemma and if so, does anyone have a fix? Regards & thanks, Hyrom Jones.

JJMack wrote:
Your memory has failed
On the contrary, your memory may have failed.
ACJ81 is correct (at least as far as Ps on OS X is concerned) and the problem was mentioned in the forum not too long ago. In CS5, Alt-clicking an icon in Adjustments panel does cause a New Layer dialog to pop open and the dialog fails to appear in CS6.
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Smart object or duplicate layer/ decrease resolution or free transform

Hi all
I would appreciate some advice on a few questions I have regarding PS.
1) I intend to place an image I have been working on into another file in photoshop. To keep file size down and to keep as much quality as possible which is my best option? The options I see available to me are to save the file as a TIFF
and then duplicate the layer into the new file or to place the image as a smart object. Or is there a better way?
If I were to place it as a smart object in which format is best? I will not need to work on the original file once it has gone into the new file.
2) I have a subject matter in a raw file that is quite small and needs to be made larger once in photoshop. I see two options for me. First one is decreasing the resolution from 300 to something like 250 which will make im the subject matter the right size. The second option I see is to free transform the image in photoshop to make it larger.
I intend to print these files on A4 at a commercial printers.
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A Very Easy Question.
I attempt to "set text of layer." I click on the plus sign on
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> seen it done many times over in rss readers, although
when I look at the
> page
> source I secretly hope that it's not as complicated as
it appears.
It would depend entirely on your level of HTML expertise.
One way to solve the problem would be to use an IFrame to
contain the
external content on the page, but a frame is a frame is a
frame. By that I
mean that IFrames usually provide all the user problems that
frames do.
> With the accordion widget I'm using as the main visual
feature of the site
> I'm
> creating, I find it unnacceptable to think I'll have to
reload the entire
> page
> every time a user wants click on something to view
information; I thought
> programming like that was a thing of the past.
Linking from one page to another is how static HTML pages
work. Having a
single page to display multiple content elements as loaded
from a database
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content from the
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refresh.
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Duplicate document question

Hello community,
I have a short and simple question:
When I create a Sales document (for example Sales Order) and I duplicate this document after I've added it to the system, why does the new Sales Order does not include user-specific changes to item descriptions, etc.) when I change the BP and click "Yes"? Why does this change not only affect the BP Master Data information but also the item information?
Hope my question is understood.
Best Regards,
Holger

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Some of the things that change are..
Payment Terms, Sales Rep, Special Pricing if any for Items, BP Project, etc
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Suda

Hey so I have a layer question

Okay so I want to add a background from one of the generators in the library and I want to add text on top of it. okay heres my question: How do I make it so that everything on that flat layer will stay there? For example when I go into 3D Mode with the active camera I want to be able to move that multilayered file as one? ME ENTIENDES??? I hope so one knows i dont think this is that complex.

hi,
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hth
adam

RPD Business Model Layer Question

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Mrinalini.

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Duplicate layer appearance between documents

Hi there,
I use a javascript that copies all objects within a layer to a new layer in a new document. This works fine as all appearances are attached to the objects but appearances applied to a layer will not be duplicated (as the objects are copied into a newly created layer). Is there a method using javascript to duplicate all layer appearances (effects, fills, strokes) from one layer to another layer?
Thanks in advance.

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How ot duplicate layer to the new document?

This code provide duplicate the layer in the current document.
It must some keyTo param. but what arguments is?
Auto_Ref docRefs;
Auto_Desc docDescs;
Auto_Desc results(false);
error = sPSActionReference->PutIdentifier(docRefs.get(),
classLayer,
LayerID);
error = sPSActionDescriptor->PutReference(docDescs.get(),
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plugInDialogDontDisplay);

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