Selections -> Layers

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Aug 20, 2005
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I have multiple selections on a single layer image. Is there a way I can convert each of my selections to a separate layer? thanks

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Kingdom
Aug 20, 2005
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I have multiple selections on a single layer image. Is there a way I can convert each of my selections to a separate layer? thanks

Copy – new layer – paste


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nomail
Aug 20, 2005
Kingdom wrote:

"tb" wrote in
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I have multiple selections on a single layer image. Is there a way I can convert each of my selections to a separate layer? thanks

Copy – new layer – paste

No, just Copy – Paste. Photoshop will create that new layer automatically. Or even simpler: CNTR-J (Command-J on a Mac)


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edjh
Aug 20, 2005
Kingdom wrote:
"tb" wrote in
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I have multiple selections on a single layer image. Is there a way I can convert each of my selections to a separate layer? thanks

Copy – new layer – paste
If you do that the selected pixels will no longer be in their original position, Use Ctrl-J, Layer via copy on each selection..


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Rick
Aug 20, 2005
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Kingdom wrote:
"tb" wrote in
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I have multiple selections on a single layer image. Is there a way I can convert each of my selections to a separate layer? thanks

Copy – new layer – paste
If you do that the selected pixels will no longer be in their original position, Use Ctrl-J, Layer via copy on each selection..

I tried Ctrl-J, but it just created a single new layer with all my selections on it. Maybe I should’ve been clearer in the first post: I want X-number of selections to become X-number new layers, so each selection is on an individual layer. Can this be done quickly/easily?
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nomail
Aug 20, 2005
tb wrote:

I tried Ctrl-J, but it just created a single new layer with all my selections on it. Maybe I should’ve been clearer in the first post: I want X-number of selections to become X-number new layers, so each selection is on an individual layer. Can this be done quickly/easily?

You do not have ‘x number of selections’, you have ONE selection that happens to be discontinuous. So the answer is ‘no’.

You have to make the selections one by one and then use CTRL-J one by one. The only alternative would be CTRL-J; make x copies of that layer and then delete the ‘other selections’ layer by layer.


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edjh
Aug 20, 2005
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Use Ctrl-J, Layer via copy on each selection..
I tried Ctrl-J, but it just created a single new layer with all my selections on it. Maybe I should’ve been clearer in the first post: I want X-number of selections to become X-number new layers, so each selection is on an individual layer. Can this be done quickly/easily?
Like I said (John too), each selection,


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http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
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Rick
Aug 20, 2005
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Use Ctrl-J, Layer via copy on each selection..
I tried Ctrl-J, but it just created a single new layer with all my selections on it. Maybe I should’ve been clearer in the first post: I want X-number of selections to become X-number new layers, so each selection is on an individual layer. Can this be done quickly/easily?
Like I said (John too), each selection,


Okay thanks for the replies everyone.

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