Photoshop Action - How to duplicate all layers in a group and then merge those layers?

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February 12, 2022
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Hello! I really hope you can help as I've been struggling with this for days!

So I have three groups in my project (this is about to increase). I'd like to be able to duplicate all layers in a group and then merge those new layers please. If you can suggest any way of doing this I'd massively appreciate it. Thank you!

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Stephen Marsh

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@Simon23132076npmk

As you can see, two different replies with two different outcomes.

This is because your post is not 100% clear and is open to interpretation. I would have offered a different third outcome!

Do you wish for the duped merged layers to be within the group?

Do you wish for the duped merged layers to replace those in the group?

Could you please illustrate with a before/after cropped screenshot of the layers panel?

R

r-bin

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1. select the desired group

2. press ctrl+alt+e (on windows)

yes??

Kukurykus

Legend

Of course that's something I would do as well, but I wouldn't think the author may want something so easy, so I assumed he wants the duplicated layers were merged with layers they were duplicated from.

Kukurykus

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1) Select Group

2) Duplicate Group

3) Colapse All Groups

4) Shift with Alt with [

5) Ungroup Layers

6) Merge Layers

7) Group Layers

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