• Adobe Photoshop

  copy paste from masked layer in 1 image to plain layer in a second image

  Posted by Harry Putnam on March 11, 2014 at 2:10 am

  Trying to copy from an image file in which I have masked out something I want to past into another image.
  Both images are open in PS cc

  I’m sure I must have known how to do this at some point but the old noodle has let it go bye bye.
  Googling for this information is turning out to be a bit harder than one might think.
  Piles of stuff about masking comes up, and pasting into a mask no shortage… but the way I want isn’t so easy.

  Hopefully someone can tell me how its done. I realize I could go the other way round pretty easily but some times it just makes sense to go this way.

  Running Vegas Pro 10c on Win 7 (64bit)

  Jeff Hinkle replied 12 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Hinkle

  March 11, 2014 at 2:42 pm

  You can simply drag the masked layer into the second document (which I like for added flexibility of keeping the mask for possible refinement), or, if you really want to copy/paste, make a selection of the mask (on Windows, I think that’s ctl-click on the mask thumbnail in the Layers palette), then copy, switch to second document, paste.

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  It is easier to destroy than to create.
  More fun, too.

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