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Merge layers issue

Enthusiast ,
Apr 02, 2023 Apr 02, 2023

How to merge several layers so that the name of the bottom one remains?

I just Shift + select them and Ctrl+E, but I get the name of the top one (and lose the color label).

 

layers.png

 

Merged result

layers2.png

 

Though when I turn off the visibility of all other layers, select the corresponding layer and click "Merge visible", I get what I need 🙂 But it's too many extra clicks.

layers3.png

 

Can't PS consider what layer I select first when Shift+select several layers?

 

UPD.

Created a feature request. Please, vote! https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/fix-the-merge-layers-issue/idi-p/13700956

 

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Enthusiast , Apr 03, 2023 Apr 03, 2023
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Enthusiast ,
Apr 03, 2023 Apr 03, 2023

@Stephen Marsh People are actively discussing scripts which do this, no problem to send these scripts to PS team 🙂 Then just add to the code as a default feature. Profit!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 03, 2023 Apr 03, 2023

@Ivan Zajats – Sure... The scripts mostly achieve the same end, just in a different way than what you are asking for. You sound like a pragmatic man, so you likely don't care how the end result is technically achieved. It is the end result that you want.

 

Personally, I'd go with a scripting method rather than waiting for Adobe to possibly implement your idea (that is me being pragmatic as well).

 

From this and other posts of yours, I get the impression that you are challenging the status quo, not just blindly accepting what currently is – but asking for what could be (as a native feature).

 

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Enthusiast ,
Apr 03, 2023 Apr 03, 2023

I know nothing about scripting and don't wanna go into it. How many seconds will I save? for me it's easier now to merge & rename or turn off/on the visibility to merge without renaming.

 

Frankly, I rarely merge a bunch of layers at once, mostly just Ctrl+E one layer.

 

P.S. Anyway, 2 of my requests were implemented in less than a year. Lets' make PS great again! 🙂

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Community Expert ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023
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I want PS to consider what layer I select first and retain its name, would be much better

Applying the name of the lowermost selected Layer is easy, but keeping track of the order in which the selected Layers were selected would seem wasteful to me. 

Could you use something else to identify the intended layer-name, Layer Color for example? 

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Enthusiast ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023

I don't get your idea. I doubt, anyone would suggest anything better than described in the post. But many people are still trying, LOL

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Community Expert ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023

Well, do you want to wait for your Feature Request possibly being implemented or do you want to try to work more efficiently in the meantime? 

In the screenshots you posted the »clean up« Layer is green – is that coincidental or is that a determining property? 

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Enthusiast ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023

I use color labels for main groups & layers. 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023

Is there always one green Layer amongst the selected ones that need to be merged and, if so, is it always the one the name of which should be applied to the merged Layer? 

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Enthusiast ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023

Usually, it's a clean up layer as on the screenshot. The most common case is copypasting a part of the image to hide some areas + adding an adjustment(s) to match the exposure/contrast/color.

 

If I'm working on a composite there're multiple patches - for the BG & main object(s).

Though more often I preserve them as layers in the groups.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023

That does not seem to answer my question, so I assume the presence of a specifically-colored-Layer is not a given. 

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Enthusiast ,
Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023

sometimes I label the main layer, sometimes not; in case of the clean up I usually do

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Apr 04, 2023 Apr 04, 2023
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If there is ONE green (or some other color, really) Layer and the others have no color then the merging-process can be automated to result in a Layer of that name and color. 

But that ONE Layer needs to be a unambiguously identifyable. (Edit: But that it is the first one selected is not relevant.)

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Apr 03, 2023 Apr 03, 2023
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