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[onething]

This is probably gonna sound really really silly, but I cant get the copy and paste to work on Photoshop. I have one button and I want to have a row of 5 of them in a line

When i paste it, no matter what i select it only pastes the text and not the image, im like wtf.

And pasting more than once just leads to it pasting over itself, not after itself.

[ethikz]

The easiest way to duplicate a layer is to just hightlight the layer in the layers palette and hit ctrl+j. If it isn't stroked or filled then all you have is an empty space which won't work when you copy

[onething]

ethikz said:

The easiest way to duplicate a layer is to just hightlight the layer in the layers palette and hit ctrl+j. If it isn't stroked or filled then all you have is an empty space which won't work when you copy

Ctrl+j doesnt do anything for me, it doesnt copy anything so i cant paste it into the row i'm looking for
is highlighting the area done with a marquee tool?

[Bertan]

Did you try duplicate via the meny?

Layer -> New -> Layer via Copy

[ethikz]

ctrl+j doesn't copy it duplicates the layer that you have highlighted

[onething]

Bertan said:

Did you try duplicate via the meny?

Layer -> New -> Layer via Copy

My ''New'' is greyed out!! i pick the rectangular marquee tool, select this button, that is if thats how i should do it, and yet my ''new'' is greyed out!


If i may add another totally noob question epic fail before i go to bed, why can i only type light blue text into my poor little button? As God be my witness, im following the instructions found here:

How to Change Text Color in Adobe Photoshop | eHow.com

And the only rectngular thing with color i can find at the top, i change its colour but it just wont change the colour of my text, which is light blue upon a blue background lol!! Help very much appreciated.

[Bertan]

Sorry, have no idea what this could be. But just for safety check what mode you are in, I know Multichannel mode makes the "new" greyed out.

[onething]

thanks but no luck, i am or i was on index color...

Edit: ur right, RGB color solves that particular issue.

Apparently my problem now is the color of the text and that it only duplicates upon itself.

[onething]

ethikz said:

ctrl+j doesn't copy it duplicates the layer that you have highlighted

For this is there a cursor like there is with text where i can paste what I've duplicated in the space of my choice?
When i duplicate it just pastes into the centre where i got it from!

[ethikz]

after it does that you go to the top of your toolbar and click the arrow. after that you can just drag it where you want it