Photoshop: Duplicating floating layer to new doc flattens the layer

Question

Create a document with only one layer, not background.
Fill the layer with gray, for example.
Take an eraser and wipe a large blurred hole in the center.
Select from the layer menu: Duplicate layer to new file.

The layer is duplicated flattened and, moreover, it is not correctly flattened.

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Is this a known issue?

Jeffrey Tranberry · Answer

This issue was fixed in 21.2.

christoph pfaffenbichler · Answer

I can reproduce that, the New File is flattened. (21.1.2 on macOS 10.15.3)This is irrelevant to me personally but I appreciate that the result seems unexpected and unintended.

Tim Neeley · Answer

I got the same results you did—then I tested it again only this time I added a transparent layer to the original and it worked fine:

Example 1:

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Example 2:

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So it looks like you have to have 2 layers in order duplicate your gray layer to a new file.

Vladimir Onufrienko · Answer

This behavior breaks the script for clearing metadata in a saved file.

Duplicate a document with a merge into a new document.
Duplicate a layer from this file to a new document. Saving a file without garbage in metadata and others.

Vladimir Onufrienko · Answer

If steps for reproduction are not clear, here is a videohttps://yadi.sk/i/Xq4cmbLxTysipA

Vladimir Onufrienko · Answer

UP

Jeffrey Tranberry · Answer

That's weird. I can reproduce it but it looks like a long-standing behavior with an easy workaround. I can log it but it falls into the category of 'Doctor it hurts when I do 'x'...' so it would be pretty low priority to tackle.

Jeffrey Tranberry · Answer

Oops. I take that back. Looks like it was working at least back in CS6. I'll see if I can track it down to a specific release.

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Photoshop: Duplicating floating layer to new doc flattens the layer

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