Photoshop CS6 Layer via Copy Question

Hi,
I've noticed that when a selection is Layer via Copyed in Photoshop CS6, it appears brighter and slightly more saturated in color than the original selection it came from. Currently I manually make lighting and color adjustments to match it back to the original, but is there a way to prevent this altogether? There are no masks or adjustment layers or any other tools being used when this happens -- just a simple Layer via Copy.
I'm not sure if there is a setting that will help cut out that time consuming manual step of retouching to match the original selection, but any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

There shouldn't be any difference if it's just layer via copy in the same document.
What operating system are you using?
Is photoshop cs6 up to date?
(Help>Updates from within photoshop cs6)
Could you post a screenshot(s) showing the difference and your layers panel?

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Layer via Copy, Free Transform, Multiple Layers, Doesnt work?

Hello,
I am using Adobe Photoshop CS6, latest version as of 05/25/12
I have 19 layers, each has a 1200x1200px texture. These are of course overlapped, so setting them all to visible will only show the top layer.
All layers are rasterized, and contain 1200x1200px:
1) I select all 19 layers using shift+click, all are highlighted (in the layer pane).
2) I select a region using the selection tool, in this case a rectangular region that is 172px high and 35px wide.
3) I right click the selection, and then select: layer via copy. (Note, Layer via cut is disabled for some reason)
4) *problem* It creates 19 new layers with the full image from the selected layers and not the selection which is what I wanted to place in the new layers.
5) *problem* when I right click the selection and select "Free Transform", the transform box surrounds the entire canvas and not the selection.
6) *problem* when I skew, it skews the entire image and not just the selection.
7) *problem* Previously, I have been able to select a layer from the layer pane, go to image menu, select adjustments, brightness/contrast, and adjust the brightness/contrast for just that layer. Now it wont let me.
8) *related problem* If I have 3 layers (background, 1, and 2) on a 1200x1200 canvas, with the image in layer 1 being 150px, and the image in layer 2 being 150x, each rasterized, and then stack the images on 1 and 2 over eachother, then select both layers, then select a region inside the stacked images, then select free transform, the free transform selection embodies all pixels inside the canvas (not the entire canvas this time) and performs the transform on these pixels and not the original selection.
If I do it making all the layers visible as well as selected, it behaves the same.
What appears to be happening is Photoshop is ignoring the selection and for some reason is using a pixel region (or if pixels cover the entire canvas, the whole image) when performing actions intended for the selection.
What's strange is when I made these textures, I started out with 19 150x150 pictures, I set the canvas size to 1200x1200, selected all the layers in the layer pane, selected the 150x150 image in the middle, and was able to move all 19 textures to the top right corner, able to switch to transform on all 19 pictures, able to rotate 180 degrees all 19 pictures, was able to flip horizontal all 19 pictures, then able to copy all 19 pictures to new layers, move the 19 pictures all at the same time to the right 150 pixels, rinse and repeat, to eventually come out with 19 1200x1200 textures tiled from the 150px pictures. In other words, I did exactly what I am attempting to do with the 1200x1200 pictures with the 150x150 pixtures and it worked like a champ.
Something has changed, maybe an option somewhere got clicked, something. I don't know.
The end goal of course is to take a selection of all 19 of the 1200x1200 pictures, transform, then skew that image to make a collage of images applied to an added background. Performing this on all 19 textures and getting the same exact skew, etc would take days considering I need to do about 15 of different portions of the tile.
Need some help here... is there an option somewhere that makes photoshop ignore the selection and perform the actions on all the images?
Best regards,
Dustin

Just ran into this problem today Dustin. You can only create new layers via copy from one layer. What I ended up having to do is copy all of my images that were on different layers. Then I merged them. Select all the images you copied>Layer>Merge. So now I have two copies of artwork on the same canvas. One that is all different layers and one that is now one layer. Then I was able to select the portions of the new merged layer I wanted and create new layers via copy. Then I erased the extra, merged layer.
You don't have to copy your initial images. I just did in case I wanted to edit them separately later.
I hope I understood your first problem correctly.

Problems/limitations of Layer Via Copy (Cmd+J)

Some results of Layer Via Copy (Cmd+J) when pixel layers are targeted seem unusual to me. Depending on initial conditions, the result can be entire layers being duplicated instead of just the selection, masks not being duplicated, and the selection being lost plus Select > Reselect being unavailable. It's not difficult to devise workarounds but I think something may be amiss.
The following table shows my expected and actual results for CS6 on OS X 10.6.8. Results which I find strange are in red triple caps.

PECourtejoie wrote:
JJ, line 4 works in CS3. are you sure the layer is targeted?
It may be available in CS3. The second machine I had CS3 crashed a while back, so I can no longer install CS3 without calling Adobe for I did nod deactivate it.
I may have to do that for CS3 is the version of Photoshop that does not have bugs that affect what I use in Photoshop.
The only versions of Photoshop I can test these days are CS2 CS5 and CS6.
CS6 is so buggy I don't use it.
With CS2 row 4 is available, however the new layer created is not correct for the targeted layer layer mask does not affect the creation of the new layer. I retested CS5 and though it looked like I had targeted the layer, the actual target was the layer's layer mask. When I targeted the layers contents the command was available like in CS2; the created layer did not reflect the transparency caused by the layer's layer mask.
CS6 is still an other story: while cs6 works the same when the layer layer contents is the target, the command is available when the layer mask is the actual target, and the result is that the layer is duplicated and the selection is not honored.
Here are some screen captures
CS5 with layer contents targeted
Results
CS6 with Layer Mask being the target
results
In any case row 4 does not work the way I expected it too.
I never ran into this problem for normally I use stamp visible layers to create the new layers I want.
Shift+Alt+Ctrl+N Shift+Alt+Ctrl+E or simply Shift+Alt+Ctrl+N+E
Stamp visible layers does not honor an active selection but leaves it active, so you can add it as a layer mask by just clicking the add layer mask icon in the layers palette after stamping visible layers.....

Resolving Layer via Copy or Layer via Cut - Grayed Out

There are many times you will "place" a picture file inside your photoshop document, and want to resize it, put it in a different layer, or crop the image inside photoshop - but you may find a simple error message or grayed out layer via copy/cut prevents you from doing so.
To do this, you will most often do this one of three ways:
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Once you do this you will now be able to follow one of the steps above to Layer Via Copy or Layer Via Cut.
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you will get the error message "Could not make a new layer from the selection because the selected area is empty." All these errors are a result of photoshop not identifying pixels that you are trying to cut/copy.
I would say they are the result of the active Layer not being a pixel layer or being empty in the selected region, judging from the remedy you describe.
And what you seem to call »box« goes by the name of »Panel«.

Layer Via Copy ??

Help and my apologies for the absurd detail in this question! Recently in a class I saw a Layer (or more usually a Selection) created by an 'unusual' Layer Via Copy method. I've been unable to duplicate what happened.
Here's what I saw - From a background layer (with selection), create a new (blank) layer. Create a SECOND new Layer containing (!!) the 'outline' of the background layer/selection, somehow make the selection/layer appear in this layer and make the blank new layer disappear.
Yes, really.
Here are the steps I've created to get PART of the way. Explanations and Corrections welcome, please, really, pretty please and thank you very much!
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PROBLEM: How do I make the selection - not just the marching ants - appear in Layer 2?
You can create a solid (black) fill of the selection in Layer 2 with Option + SLC Layers Mask (white circle in gray square in Layers Menu) but though I saw this step, I think it may/might/could have occurred after merging the blank layer 1 with the (at least partially) 'filled' layer 2.
ALSO; fyi, you can - from the background layer (with selection active)
create new layer
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cmnd + create new layer
and then if (still on L2), option + new layer mask, you get the same black fill as above but the selection disappears from the background layer.
Thank you very much.

Yes! I am confused too! But, no, I am positive of the approach as I saw it in use. Can you read a .psd image from an e-mail? (I'm really stupid about most things.) If yes, then I can send each step - otherwise...
Do these steps and watch the result.
Open an image.
Make a selection.
New layer via copy from the Layers Menu Icon (L1 - blank)
ON LAYER 1 !!!
CMND + New Layer Via Copy (creates ...)
L2 and it will have the marching ants outline of/from Background.
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NOTE: You don't have to create that blank L1 - you can 'just' from Background/selection CMND+New Layer and get the outline copied to L1(in this case). What I saw involved first creating a blank layer as above - really. The next steps, make the selection in L2 appear and the L1 disappear (deleting is cheating...)
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Is what I've done - so far - right?
How to make the layer/selection appear in L2.
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Pretty much everyone who's successfully using a computer - Mac and PC users alike - comes to realize after a while that the task of integrating things on their computers and making everything work falls on THEM, not the developers of applications like Adobe. Some applications pose unique challenges, but to think you can just throw up your hands and try to make it someone else's problem when something goes wrong simply isn't a viable strategy. Maybe that's how things should be, but it's not how it is.
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