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P: Don't allow duplication of locked layers

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
September 26, 2011
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The (Mac)keyboard shortcut to make a copy of a selection when not in the move tool is:
command-option-drag selection. That's all good! But this same keyboard shortcut should NOT duplicate fully locked layers. A locked layer should really be locked (like Illustrator) or else there should be a preference to make it so, please. thanks.

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Gandhi4

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this is such a issue. ADOBE DO NOT LISTEN AT ALL. 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! 12 YEARS!! FIX THIS NOW!!!!!!!!@

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Mike26632852um4v

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2024, 12 years since the first person complained about this... is there any one person, just one person who actually uses the duplicate layer feature. If no one actually wants it why has Adobe not addressed this issue. It looks like it frustrates everyone.

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Davitt25260090nvht

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CMD + Alt +drag solves it for me

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Ioan C.

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Your analogy is dumb and wrong... jeez... A picture of a house is not the same thing as a locked house...By your logic you have a house and a picture of a house when in reality you should have 2 houses...

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markwm

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Suddenly alt+drag is duplicating locked layers. I don't want this behaviour.

I have a locked overlay over the entire canvas, I don't want alt+drag to make a duplicate of it.

Bojan Živković11378569

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What are you trying to do/achieve using Alt + drag?

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markwm

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I'm trying to duplicate a unlocked layer underneath the locked layer

this was working before but then I had to re-reset settings and now it doesn't work.

I know I can uncheck 'auto select' layers but before this was not necessary

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robotriot

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I often duplicate layers by selecting the move tool and then CTRL+ALT+ Left clicking on the layer in the canvas, to drag a new copy. I noticed that this also affects locked layers, which I found to be annoying. I sometimes use a locked layer with reduced opacity that's on top of all the other layers as reference, and when using the aforementioned method, this selects and duplicates this locked layer. Is this intentional behavior? I'd expect the locked state of a layer to mean that there's no interaction possible on the canvas with this layer, only in the layer window.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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are you sure? I mean: 1) Click on the layer you want to duplicate; 2) then hold right alt e click and drag (not necessarily in the object,, could be in any place of the canvas). I attached a video. Im using Photoshop 2020, so maybe it could be a version issue.

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mokar37

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I tried this on CS5 and it doesn't work. Behavior with Right ALT is same as Left ... if you're hovering on a locked layer when you do it, the locked layer duplicates. Anyone else get this to work?

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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I'd suffered from this since ever. One possible solution (only tested on Windows so far): 1) select the object layer; 2) use the right ALT (right option in mac, maybe?) key to drag.

Is not perfect, but prevents some annoyng additional moves.

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Image+Type

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COMPLETELY AGREE.
I lock my layers to keep them visible but prevent myself from accidentally modifying them. Making option+drag work on locked layers disrupts messes me up every time.

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