Moving Layers Between Two Open Documents
Photoshop has a lot of tricks up its electronic sleeves, and one of the handiest is the ability to move layers between open documents. For example, you have an image of a landscape and sky, but you don't like the sky, so you erase it. You then open another document with a sky that suits the design of your document. It's a simple matter to move the layer containing the sky into any other open document.
Move Layers Between Documents
Open two or more documents.
Click on the document containing the layer you want to move tomake it the active document.
Select the Move tool on the toolbox.
Drag the layer you want to move from the open document window into the second document.IMPORTANT
If the document you're moving a layer into contains more than one layer, Photoshop places the layer you're moving directly above the active layer in the second document. If the layer is in the wrong stacking order, drag it up and down in the Layers palette until it's correctly positioned. [View full size image]
Did You Know?You can also drag a layer thumbnail onto a document. Drag the layer thumbnail from the Layers palette into the document window of the second document. |
From the Experts CornerRemoving the Excess If you're dragging a layer from a document that contains more pixels than the receiving document, the areas of the image outside the viewable area of the document are still there, taking up file space. To delete them, first position the image exactly where you want, click the Select menu, and then click Select All. Select the Image menu, and then click Crop. That's it. All the image information outside the viewable window is removed. |