paste in place -> photoshop help
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- twooh
hey,
is there a way to paste in the same exact place that you copied something in photoshop?
- van_rijn0
possible if you use the marquee
- CyBrainX0
Use the same selection. Photoshop will paste in the middle of any selection.
- airey0
instead of pasting you could just 'float' the selection from the previous layer. not sure of the key command - apple-j i think.
- twooh0
but im not trying to paste in the middle, just the same exact location where it was copied from.
indesign and illustrator have this feature i think, and i did it before in illustrator, so i dont understand why you can't do this in photoshop.
- Beech0
do what CyBrainX said or align it. I don't think photoshop has that option because it kind of does it automatically.
- mg330
Seems to happen only by luck for me, sometimes it's just right there when you paste normally.
Sometimes, it's not.
What gives?
- airey0
well the float command will create the selected section on a new layer in exactly the same place.
illustrator and indesign allow you to paste-in-place / paste-in-front / etc but not so with psd as it works differently and to do so would mean you'd have to create a new layer first and then paste-in-place (within a marque selection), unless your not using those super 'layers' which are a nice addition since version 3 or so.
if you're copying a section within the same document then the fload command will be better to use than the paste surely?
i guess it just depends on how you work.
- woodyBatts0
duplicate layer
- warheros0
just about to say that.
use marquee to select, then make layer, then duplicate layer.
- kezza_20
drag to your new stage holding shift and apple. the stages need to be the same size for that to work...