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Moving layer masks the old way in Photoshop CS

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If you haven't yet made the move from Photoshop CS to CS2, you may be wondering how to copy a layer mask from one layer to another in CS. It is definitely not intuitive.

Select the destination layer. Then click and drag the layer mask thumbnail from the source layer all the way down to the Create Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. Now you'll understand why I think the Photoshop CS2 method of copying a layer mask is such an improvement

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