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Adobe Photoshop on Mac and Windows offers several dissimilar means to re-create epitome layers between documents so you don't need to recreate your hard work from scratch. Here's how to do it.

How to Copy Layers by Drag-and-Drop

The easiest way to copy a layer from one Photoshop certificate to another is to elevate and drib information technology between documents. Start past launching both your documents in Photoshop. Notice that each certificate has its own tab in the Photoshop interface.

Multiple document tabs in the Photoshop interface.

In the menu at the superlative of the screen or window, click Window > Suit > ii-upwardly Vertical. This way, both of your documents will appear side by side.

Next, select the tab for the photo that you want to copy a layer from. In the "Layers" panel on the right sidebar of the Photoshop window, drag the layer that you desire to re-create and drop it onto the 2nd photo on your screen.

Notation: If y'all don't see the Layers panel, click the Window > Layers option in the card bar to enable information technology.

Drag a layer from the "Layers" panel in the Photoshop window

If you click your second photo's tab, you'll discover that the layer y'all copied is now bachelor in it.

A layer has been copied to secondary document in the Photoshop window.

Pretty easy! Drag and drop layers equally much every bit you want between images.

How to Copy Layers via the "Indistinguishable Layer" Pick

Another way to re-create a layer from one Photoshop certificate to another is to use the "Indistinguishable Layer" option. To do so, first, open both of your documents in Photoshop.

Select the certificate that you lot want to re-create a layer from by clicking its tab virtually the peak of the Photoshop window. In the "Layers" console on the right sidebar, right-click the layer that you want to re-create and select "Duplicate Layer."

Select "Duplicate Layer."

In the Duplicate Layer window, click the driblet-down menu next to "Document." Select the name of the destination Photoshop certificate and click "OK" on the right.

Select a destination document in the "Duplicate Layer" window.

Your duplicated layer is now available in the other Photoshop certificate.

There are many more than tricks like this out at that place if you take the fourth dimension to larn more about Photoshop. Even if you don't use Photoshop for a living, information technology's well-nigh ever worth the time you put into information technology. Accept fun!

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