I have the Just Flight BAe 146-200 addon for FSX. I'm currently working on an Air BC paint job with the included paint kit. I'm using Photoshop CS5. When I want to transfer sections from the fuselage files to the texture files I want to copy the guides from the Guides layer and the paint job from my Paint layer at the same time. I linked these 2 layers but I can only copy and past the paint layer but not the guides from the Guides layer. Reason why I want to copy and past the guides is because the texture files have those same guides and I need to align them together so that the paint is perfectly lined up. How do I copy and paste 2 linked layers into another image?

I use Photoshop 6 so it might be different.

 

Try turning off all unwanted layers and you should be able to "copy all visible", for me it's Ctrl+Shift+C.

 

This will paste as one layer, so hopefully the guides are outside of the texture mapping.

 

Or you could group the layers together in a set and drag the set from the layers palette to texture files.

 

regards,

Joe

I use Photoshop 6 so it might be different.

 

Try turning off all unwanted layers and you should be able to "copy all visible", for me it's Ctrl+Shift+C.

 

This will paste as one layer, so hopefully the guides are outside of the texture mapping.

 

Or you could group the layers together in a set and drag the set from the layers palette to texture files.

 

regards,

Joe

 

I knew about making layers invisible that I don't want to use and merging and copying the visible layers only, but thanks anyways. That's the way I've been doing it but it's too much clicking and I have to remember to make the layers visible again that I made invisible if I'm continue to continue to work with the master texture fuselage files. Just too much work doing it that way and I was hoping that there is a way that I can leave the layers visible that I don't want to use and only merging and copying 2 layers of my choice that can automatically combine them into 1 layer on the image I'm pasting the layers to.

I knew about making layers invisible that I don't want to use and merging and copying the visible layers only, but thanks anyways. That's the way I've been doing it but it's too much clicking and I have to remember to make the layers visible again that I made invisible if I'm continue to continue to work with the master texture fuselage files. Just too much work doing it that way and I was hoping that there is a way that I can leave the layers visible that I don't want to use and only merging and copying 2 layers of my choice that can automatically combine them into 1 layer on the image I'm pasting the layers to.

 

I'm using CS3 but I'm assuming it hasn't changed much.

 

From the sounds of it you want to copy/duplicate layers on to another psd/bmp right?

 

To do this you should be able to click one layer (as in highlight) and hold Crtl and click the other to select both.

 

Then you can either right click one of them and 'Duplicate Layers...', ensure the other document is open and select the other document from the drop down and hit OK.

 

Alternatively ensure both layers are highlighted, have both of the documents up side by side and drag the layers to the other document by either using the Move Tool or using the Layers window.

 

You could also put the layers in to a Group or folder and duplicate or drag the Group over.

 

I'd have a look at the paint kit but the justflight website doesn't seem to be working at the moment, if you're still having a problem can you post an image of the paint kit and the Layers window?

In addition to what Morgan wrote, these procedures still work the same way in Photoshop CS5.