Working with multiple clipping masks

[brianjoe87]

I'm struggling to find out how to make a clipping mask on to a layer that is already added as a clipping mask to another layer.

Does that even make sense?

How do you guys do this?

I've attached image to illustrate what I mean.

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Hi Brian

It would be great if we could put the top two layers into a group and then clip the group to the layer below. Unfortunately at present we cannot.

So your choices are a separate vector mask (which would need updating if you moved the lower layer)

Or a smart object containing the top two layers

You might want to add some feedback and comments to the ongoing request here :

Photoshop: Grouping layers clipped in a clipping mask. | Photoshop Family Customer Community

Dave

[brianjoe87]

Oh yes, ofcourse, smart objects could be used in a situation like this.

Thanks for the answer Dave 🙂