Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Dragging Between Documents

It's rather common to have more than one photograph that needs the same type of adjustment (they might have similar subject matters and similar lighting). When that's the case, you can adjust one of the documents using Adjustment Layers and then drag those Adjustment Layers on top of the second document (Figure 11.10 and 11.11). You can select as many Adjustment Layers as are needed and drag from either the main document window or the Layers palette. Just be aware that those layers will be deposited above whichever layer is active in the destination document, which can cause some unexpected results if the destination document already contains Adjustment Layers and the top-most layer is not active.

Figure 11.10. Select ...