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Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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Layer menu

Not surprisingly, everything pertaining to the use and the modification of layers is found under this menu:

  • Layer>New>Layer - This simply adds a new (blank) layer to the Layers panel (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + N).
  • Layer>New>Layer from Background - converts the background layer into a regular layer.
  • Layer>New>Group - Creates a new (empty) group—this is a method to tidy up a busy layer panel by placing common layers together into a folder (as a group).
  • Layer>New>Group from Layers: Collects all selected layers automatically into one group.
  • Layer>New>Layer via Copy - this takes the entire content of a layer or the selected part of a layer and converts it into a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + J).
  • Layer>New>Layer via Cut - The same as the previous command but by removing the cut layer rather than copying it (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + J).
  • Layer>Duplicate Layer... - Copy (duplicate) an existing (sele...
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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