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P: Please add the ability for Command-J to dupe layers and layer groups

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March 30, 2011
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Command-J duplicates the entire current layer, or a portion of the current layer, if there’s a selection. It’s a great feature, and one I use daily.

For some strange reason, Command-J doesn’t do anything when there’s two layers or a layer group selected. Why? I realise there’s probably a decent technical reason for this, but a context sensitive “just dupe it” command would be really handy, even if it’s actually several different methods behind the scenes.

Is now a good time to mention that the Layer menu already contains an item that does most of these things, but it doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut by default? Pre-emptive strike: Assigning a keyboard shortcut wouldn’t help, as the menu item doesn’t duplicate selections within a layer (Command-J does).

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Edward Caruso Photography

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David - that is great. thank you. Just wondering - can you script adjustment layers so that they always open in the CS3-style modal dialogues? I'm sure it can be done somehow.

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Yelnats1

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Here it is as a file:
http://sites.google.com/site/davidjen...

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David Jensen, you rock. If you don't mind, I'm going to post the script on my blog tonight for everyone to use and download. If you mind, let me know, I won't keep it up. 🙂

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J453

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Cool.

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Yelnats1

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Put this script into photoshop/presets/scripts and assign it to cmd-J. It should do exactly what you've requested.



try{

var idCpTL = charIDToTypeID( "CpTL" );

executeAction( idCpTL, undefined, DialogModes.NO );

}catch(e){

var idDplc = charIDToTypeID( "Dplc" );

    var desc172 = new ActionDescriptor();

    var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );

        var ref3 = new ActionReference();

        var idLyr = charIDToTypeID( "Lyr " );

        var idOrdn = charIDToTypeID( "Ordn" );

        var idTrgt = charIDToTypeID( "Trgt" );

        ref3.putEnumerated( idLyr, idOrdn, idTrgt );

    desc172.putReference( idnull, ref3 );

    var idVrsn = charIDToTypeID( "Vrsn" );

    desc172.putInteger( idVrsn, 5 );

executeAction( idDplc, desc172, DialogModes.NO );

}

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Yelnats1

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This wouldn't merge them. I don't know how helpful that would be, though.

marcbjangoAuthor

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We have Copy Merged for doing that (which I use regularly!).

Edward Caruso Photography

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it would make sense to me that command-j would also dupe groups like it does layers. please add.

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hobbbz

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One of the first key commands I add is CMD+opt+G to dupe groups of layers. (It's not taken by anything I use)

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Yelnats1

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Ah.... I misunderstood. I thought you wanted to be able to dupe a selected potion from multiple layers... i.e. Command-J with a selection for multiple layers at once.

You were just asking to combine 2 shortcuts/commands into one a single command. That definitely makes sense.

If you would still find super cmd-j with a selection useful I could give you something 🙂

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