You can see a little double cursor there. Notice that the cursor changes when I do that. Hold down the Option key on a Mac, Alt on Windows. Let's go ahead and work on the Type layer. In order to use this technique, you need to select the Move tool, then target the layer you want to work on. Well, now what I want to do is show you another technique that you can use which will speed up your workflow even more.
Once again, let's delete the copy layer by pressing Delete or Backspace. In this way again we have an exact duplicate or copy version of that underlying layer. What it will do is it will take the contents from one layer and jump or copy those to another layer. On Mac press Cmd+J, on Windows press Ctrl+J. Another technique that we know that we can use in order to copy or duplicate a layer, is to press a keyboard shortcut combination. To delete a layer, press the Delete key, or the Mac Space key. So, now we have two versions of this text layer. We can click into a layer, and click and drag it to the new layer icon, and that will give us a copy version of that layer. Let me first review what we already know. Now, we've already talked about a few techniques that you can use in order to duplicate or copy a layer. Let's go ahead and click in the top layer, which is the text layer here. Well, here in the layers panel, you can see that we have multiple layers. And I also want to take a look at a few shortcuts that we can use in order to duplicate or copy Layer Style effects from one layer to another. And in this movie in particular, I want to talk about how we can start to duplicate or copy layers. Here, I want to build upon what we already know, and dig a bit deeper.
In the previous installment in this series, Photoshop for photographer's fundamentals, we introduced how to work with layers.
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