Cutting, pasting, moving layers together in Photoshop Elements

I really thought I’d be able to find an answer for this one, but I’ve spent wayyyyy too long trying different combinations of search words. I’m using Photoshop Elements 2.0.

I have an image with multiple layers. I would like to use the marquee tool to make a selection, then Cut through ALL of the layers, and copy all of these layers to a new image (without merging them, i.e. the layers are still separate and in the same order).

It seems to me that this should be easy, but I can’t get it to work. I’ve tried both Linking and Grouping the layers, but only the active layer gets copied (I suppose it isn’t SO much work to create the selection, select a layer, CTRL-C, select the new window and CTRL-V, repeat for all layers… but they aren’t automatically aligned in the new image and I have to do this frequently enough that it would be nice to do it all at once).

Thanks for any help you can give.

– Chris

I have an image with multiple layers. I would like to use the marquee tool to make a selection, then Cut through ALL of the layers, and copy all of these layers to a new image (without merging them, i.e. the layers are still separate and in the same order).

Copy the new Image to the one with the layers.

I have an image with multiple layers. I would like to use the marquee tool to make a selection, then Cut through ALL of the layers, and copy all of these layers to a new image (without merging them, i.e. the layers are still separate and in the same order).

Copy the new Image to the one with the layers.

Hi, Roy. I don’t understand what you mean… if my existing (layered) image is X and my new image is Y, I want to
– do whatever I need to do in terms of linking/grouping/whatever in X to convince Photoshop that these layers need to move at once. – draw a selection on image X using the marquee tool and select "Copy" (or a special version of "Copy", if necessary). – select new image Y and select "Paste" (or a special version of "Paste") and have all of the layers appear in the new image, but only the area that was within the marquee.

Why do your cropped or trimmed layers have to move onto the new Image?

Why do your cropped or trimmed layers have to move onto the new Image?

Basically, it amounted to me being an idiot… here’s what I actually wanted to do (but didn’t realize it):
– Align multiple layers in an image
– Draw a marquee box around the useful part of the image – Image -> Crop
– File -> Save As

That’s IT 🙂 I don’t know why I was so fixated on trying to move them to a new image as a group. Thanks for your help.

– Chris