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- rainman
In Photoshop when you duplicate layers or folders, the duplicates get appended with "Copy" (or "Copy 2, Copy 3, etc... depending on how many times you copy that layer or folder).
We're kinda anal when it comes to cleaning PSDs to send to clients and those "copy" appends are so annoying. Is there a way to set up Photoshop so it doesn't append the "copy" tags?
- MrOneHundred0
I don’t think so. Easy enough to just change the name to something descriptive anyway?
- jkmohr0
ha! i was just thinking about this tonight.
- jevad0
wtf? just change the fucking name when you duplicate the layers or folders
- ukit0
He's got a point, if you need to duplicate a huge folder with a lot of sublayers it can get annoying.
- cuke4260
you can do it with .jsx scripts, which are basically just photoshop-specific javascript stuff...if you go file > scripts, that's where you load them in.
www.ps-scripts.com has tutorials...maybe someone has one written that they'll share.
- Mellimelvin0
make a bunch of dupes then put it in one large "duplicates" layer set. That way you can keep the copy and people will know where they all live. Not sure why you'd need that many layer sets of the same thing.
if you're doing a pattern to option+e on the live layer, then put a dupe editable group below the background...and turn it off. That way they have your working layer in the design. If they want to change it they'll have the original.
Just my thoughts.
- rainman0
Kinda funny how some people think I'm being lazy but as I can tell, others are getting my pain. It's just an annoyance that I was hoping there was a solution I didn't know about. No need to get your panties in a bunch, Jevad.
Thanks for the thoughts... I'll try some out...
- gung_hoek0
if the folder that i want to duplicate is very heavy, i create a new file, "duplicate" the folder to the new file, and duplicate it back from there to the original file. this way, the layer/subfolder names are not changed.
- utopian10
this does suck, I hate when I have to rename like 30 layers
- jdascher12000
jevad is right, don't be lazy and sloppy.
- mdilone0
where i work, we have people that specialize in layer-renaming. that's all they do.