P: Copy/Paste Layer style works incorrectly

Yes, that's annoying. I get it often with Drop Shadow. Recently I noticed that with Pattern Overlay — if I copy/paste style layer style with Pattern Overlay, the pattern scale get somewhere around 300% (original layer has it 100%). It repeats over and over again.

Looking forward for updates from Adobe.

I have had this problem since I updated to the new version of Photoshop CC.

If I have a layer style with a drop shadow or stroke, and I copy that layer style and paste, the drop shadow or stroke parameters are not replicated.

Example:

I just copied the layer style of a rounded rectangle layer with 2px white stroke

Pasted it onto another rounded rectangle layer with no layer effects.

This layer now has a 1px white stroke instead of a 2px.

I don't understand why this continues to happen.

I'm working on a MacBook Pro Version 10.10.5.

Anyone have a solution?

3 month later - Nothing!!!

A have this problem all the time.
I copy-paste layer styles quite frequently a it just does not work at all, it realy sucks!

Please DO something about it ASAP!!!

We can reproduce this problem in-house and are actively working on a fix.

Hello David,
sorry for the delay, been quite busy recently. However, I managed to record the process on a vid: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/3rqb95gjiy...

Hope it helps 🙂

Howdy Pavel,

*pout*

Okay, I tried your EXACT steps, but couldn't reproduce the problem at all on either Mac 10.10.3 or Win8.1.  Very odd.  There's got to be some piece missing.  Would you be up to do a web-hosted screenshare -- maybe by watching you live, I can see what I'm missing now.  Just respond and I'll follow up by email.

Thanks,
David

David,
I noticed the problem only once on a production file, and that was a new document just created in PS CC 2015. And after I read what Pavel wrote below, I could easily reproduce it with my common flow:
1. Create new A4 document.
2. Make a rectangular Shape layer.
3. Cmd+J to duplicate the layer.
4. Apply drop shadow to the initial layer. Use the default shadow parameters, do not make any changes to it.
5. Copy layer style, and apply it to the second shape.

As a result of this flow I have different drop shadow style pasted: with much larger blur and distance. I could reproduce it twice with two new documents.

Please let us know if you could reproduce it. Otherwise I could provide more details on my app and OS preferences.

Hello David,
actually, I was able to reproduce the bug.

1. after I read your comments to Artem's posts, I tried to reproduce the stroke bug, opened the file I was working on when it happened, but everything worked as it should and the bug didn't occur. Decided to test a bit more, and I think I can reproduce the bug repeatedly:

2. Close all the files in PS and make a new document, A4, 300dpi, RGB.
3. Make a new layer
4. Make a rectangle (pixels not a shape)
5. Alt-drag duplicate it.
6. On the first layer, layer style: stroke 10px
7. Copy the style, paste it to the second layer.
8. The stroke weight is 42px

9. I closed the file and quit PS. Run it again, same procedure, same results.

sidenote: when it first happened, I was applying it to a photo layer with a layer mask.

So I guess the cause is not really a corrupted file. Also, no app other than PS was running at the time. If you'd like some more info, let me know, I'll be happy to help 🙂

Hi Artem,

Wait, you're NOT getting this bug repeatedly?  You do realize that ALL files/documents are subject to random corruption due to power surges, hardware imperfections, and conflicts as well as bugs, right?  If you only have this problem with a single file, any number of factors OTHER than this feature could be the cause.

It's not likely that the clipboard becomes corrupted with usable data.  More likely is some other app compromises it.  Sure, PS could be the source of the problem, but as I cannot reproduce what you're seeing, unless you can, I think this may just be a fluke.

If you can get a reproducible case, I'm VERY interested in tracking this down and fixing it.  Otherwise, there's not much I can do as I cannot get this to happen at all.

Thanks,
David

Hi Pavel,

Can I go out on a limb and ask if you've applied that stroke either to text or to some object that you've transformed?

Thanks,
David