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P: Duplicating floating layer to new doc flattens the layer

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
April 29, 2020
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Create a document with only one layer, not background.
Fill the layer with gray, for example.
Take an eraser and wipe a large blurred hole in the center.
Select from the layer menu: Duplicate layer to new file.

The layer is duplicated flattened and, moreover, it is not correctly flattened.

Is this a known issue?

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This issue was fixed in 21.2.

DavD

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When I follow your video example, my final image has an inside dissolve effect? V21.1.2 This is with the Duplicate layer over the original and "Difference" Blend mode applied.

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Oops. I take that back. Looks like it was working at least back in CS6. I'll see if I can track it down to a specific release.

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J453

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That's weird. I can reproduce it but it looks like a long-standing behavior with an easy workaround. I can log it but it falls into the category of "Doctor it hurts when I do 'x'..." so it would be pretty low priority to tackle.

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UP

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If steps for reproduction are not clear, here is a video

https://yadi.sk/i/Xq4cmbLxTysipA

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This behavior breaks the script for clearing metadata in a saved file.

Duplicate a document with a merge into a new document.
Duplicate a layer from this file to a new document. Saving a file without garbage in metadata and others.