P: Please add the ability for Command-J to dupe layers and layer groups

[marcbjango]

Command-J duplicates the entire current layer, or a portion of the current layer, if there’s a selection. It’s a great feature, and one I use daily.

For some strange reason, Command-J doesn’t do anything when there’s two layers or a layer group selected. Why? I realise there’s probably a decent technical reason for this, but a context sensitive “just dupe it” command would be really handy, even if it’s actually several different methods behind the scenes.

Is now a good time to mention that the Layer menu already contains an item that does most of these things, but it doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut by default? Pre-emptive strike: Assigning a keyboard shortcut wouldn’t help, as the menu item doesn’t duplicate selections within a layer (Command-J does).

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[chrisdpage]

no no, sorry, i just saw the under consideration and the work around.

[J453]

This is implemented in Photoshop CS6. Cmd/Ctrl + J duplicates multiple selected layers as well as layer groups.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This was implement before CS6. I set shortcut for duplicate dialog. Using this shortcut with "CTRL + ALT + SHIFT" modificators doesn't shows dialog. I used it in CS5 a lot 🙂