Duplicating a Shape

Hi @MahaB82A 

@AlanGilbertson  The thread author is referring to Free Transform Step & Repeat, which is where Shift Ctrl Alt T comes in. It works reliably with raster layers, but is definitely problematic with Shape Layers and Smart Objects.  So you could rasterize the Shape Layer, but we discovered a workaround for Smart Objects fairly recently, so lets see if we can use that here?

OK, tested and it works, so this is the way:

Create your Shape Layer, and make it a Smart Object (right click the layer)

Right click the Smart Object Layer and choose New Smart Object Via Copy

Apply the first Transform to that layer.

Now delete that layer, select the original Smart Object layer, and carry on with the Step & Repeat (Shift Ctrl Alt T)

It now works with shape layers and smart objects.

Because the shape layer is a Smart Object, you can edit the SO and change will be applied to all of the step & repeat layers.

NOTE:  You must apply the edit to the original layer.  It will not work if you edit one of the copied layers.

Just one more heads up: Step & Repeat is an undocumented shortcut, and is not included in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts

So if you reasign Shift Ctrl Alt T step & repeat will not work.

I use it to arrange windows — from a Michael Ninness worksahop at MAX about ten years ago.

So I have my new shortcut saved to my main workspace, and switch to Essentials when I need to use Step & Repeat.