Moving a photo from the Photo Bin to a document?

[stephanieb2939502]

When moving a file from the Photo bin to a document, the file is placed into the Layers Panel in a random location.

I am using PSE 15 and Windows 10.  If I select a Layer in the Layers panel where I would like the new photo to be placed and then drag the photo from the Photo Bin on to my document, it usually adds the photo to a Layer near the bottom of the Layers panel.  Why doesn't it add the photo above the Layer I selected?

This drives a person crazy if you have many Layers and you can't find where the program randomly dropped the new photo!

Thanks,

Steph

[MichelBParis · Accepted solution]

stephanieb2939502  wrote

When moving a file from the Photo bin to a document, the file is placed into the Layers Panel in a random location.

I am using PSE 15 and Windows 10.  If I select a Layer in the Layers panel where I would like the new photo to be placed and then drag the photo from the Photo Bin on to my document, it usually adds the photo to a Layer near the bottom of the Layers panel.  Why doesn't it add the photo above the Layer I selected?

This drives a person crazy if you have many Layers and you can't find where the program randomly dropped the new photo!

Thanks,

Steph

When you drag from the photo bin to the opened image, drop it exactly over the spot where the target layer is showing. The dragged image will appear as a new layer just over that target layer.

Look at the options of the move tool in the tool palette on the bottom; good to have all three boxes ticked, including 'auto select layer'.

[stephanieb2939502]

Thank you, Michel.  That did work for me.  Although I did have several Layers stacked fairly closely so the first time I didn't get it where I wanted it.  But with a more careful placement, it worked perfectly.

In the Options for the Tool palette, I don't currently have the box checked for "Show highlight on rollover".  Can you tell me what that option does?

Thank you for your help.

[MichelBParis]

stephanieb2939502  wrote

Thank you, Michel.  That did work for me.  Although I did have several Layers stacked fairly closely so the first time I didn't get it where I wanted it.  But with a more careful placement, it worked perfectly.

In the Options for the Tool palette, I don't currently have the box checked for "Show highlight on rollover".  Can you tell me what that option does?

Thank you for your help.

When you have selected 'auto select layer' and the "show highlight..." boxes, when you mouse over your canvas, a blue border rectangle is displayed to show the selected layer.