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artoix
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July 17, 2015

P: Copy/Paste Layer style works incorrectly

  • July 17, 2015
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Photoshop CC 2015 on MacBook Pro

I'm having a few shapes on stage. Shapes are duplicates of Rounded Rectangle with the same size and properties.
1. I add Drop Shadow effect to one of the shapes.
2. I make Copy Layer Style action over it.
3. I Paste Layer Style to the rest of the shapes.

The result: drop shadow effect is pasted to all layer, but with wrong parameters (shadow is with larger distance and blur: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gdw5a3mei73...)

I tried it multiple times over various layers, both single layer and multiple layers, shapes, text, bitmaps — the result is the same, effects are copies and pasted with
wrong parameters.

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    artoixAuthor
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    July 20, 2015
    David,
    my system: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bxjzltlo8w5...

    Usually having running a lot, can't provide whats been there up when this bug occurred. I'll try to provide more info on this if I reproduce it again.

    Thanks,
    Artem
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    artoixAuthor
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    July 20, 2015
    The resolution is the same in my case. All shapes are in the same document and were created as duplicates of the single shape before applying effect to the first one.

    Based on what Pavel wrote, it seems like sometimes the system pastes the effect that was in clipboard before the current one.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    July 20, 2015
    Double check the resolution on each image. If the resolution is different, then the style settings will be scaled to match the new resolution.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    July 20, 2015
    Sort of same here, happening to me, just with stroke. Copying layer style that has 3px stroke, when I paste it to another layer, the stroke is there, but it's 1px.

    Experimenting further, I change the stroke weight on the first layer to 15px, copy it, paste the style to second layer, and voila, now it's 3px heavy.

    OSX 10.10.4 on a 13-inch, Mid 2012 MacBook Pro.
    Running: just PS and Safari to write the report.
    David Mohr
    David Mohr
    Participating Frequently
    July 17, 2015
    Howdy Artem,

    So a couple of us have tried really hard to repro this, but cannot.  What OS version are you running?  Do you have something else running which might mess with your clipboard?

    We have had a couple reports of Layer Styles getting tweaked when copied, but have been unable to repro any of these issues in-house.  Maybe you can share with us the "smoking gun."  We'd certainly like to get to the bottom of the problem.

    Thanks,
    David
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    artoixAuthor
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    July 17, 2015
    Only closing and reopening the document helped.
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