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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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    J453
    Legend
    December 13, 2022

    @bhartman102890 Can you send me your two PSD files? The one you are copying the style from and the one you are pasting into? Post a URL to the video using CC files or dropbox, YouTube or something similar to share the files.

     

    Global Light settings (angle and altitude) will use the child document's settings (the document you are pasting into) unless you uncheck Global Light before you copy the style.

     

    Not sure why your Depth, Size, Soften settings aren't preserved, I'm not seeing that behavior. Hoping having your two files will help me reproduce. Thx.

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    bhartman102890
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    December 2, 2022

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    bhartman102890
    Participating Frequently
    December 2, 2022

    FILE: TEXT 1 

    FILE: TEXT 2

    In  file Text 1, I apply Effect (Bevel & Emboss) 

    Adjust the peramiters so that the lighting of text global lighting is white at 145 angle and 12 altitude. I set the depth to 1 size to 1 soften to 0.

    I copy the layer style by right clicking the text layer with the FX, and open FILE TEXT 2.

    I Paste the LAYER STYLE to text layer that I pasted into File Text 2. (I have even tried pasting the layer style to brand new text. The values in Layer style panel are Completely Oposite.

    Random Depth 137 Size 7 soften 11 angle 90 altitude 30. 

    This has been going on for three years now. I am really beginning to believe adobe just is going out of business and cannot make a solid program. The prior versions in 2010 were PERFECT. Now, I run into so many unfixable bugs this is ridiculous. It slows me down and gets me in trouble at work too. 

    Thank you.

     

    Just a heads up this problem DOES PERSIST in DECEMBER of 2022. 

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    bhartman102890
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    December 2, 2022

     

     

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    December 2, 2017
    Fast forward to 2017 & the problem persists. I paste a simple Drop Shadow Layer Style (Multiply), & it changes the color of my Normal blend mode object to a lighter one.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 1, 2016
    I updated PS CC 2015 today, but the problem persists. I'll copy layer style for a drop shadow with the desired specifications, then when layer style is pasted it has differing settings.
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    J453
    Legend
    December 1, 2015
    This should be solved by the CC 2015.1 update that was released today: https://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/201...
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    JorgeJH
    Participating Frequently
    November 26, 2015
    Same problem here ... really disappointing.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    November 11, 2015
    I have been having this problem since updating Photoshop. My stroke does not paste correctly, it is always a smaller stroke than the layer I am copying from. Also, when I set my own default layer style filters, they do not save correctly and are always reverting back to some setting that I have not ever used.
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    MadSap007
    Participant
    October 30, 2015
    Today
    Pasted Layer Style
    Changed the stroke width from 2 to 9 and changed the stroke color.

    Sounds like the fix is restart doc and go get a cup of coffee.
    ????

    Sounds like a great production strategy.
    :)
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