Pasting in Photoshop

[Badger]

About the closest thing I found is Shift+CTR+V which is copy into.... but you have to select the whole layer everytime you want to copy something into it... it deselects after pasting...

Try setting up an action for it and assigning a hot key ...
action Select all
Action Copy Into...
then all you have to do is have the move too handy to move the trees where you want and hit the hotkey you assigned it to to paste another one

**Nevermind... I just tried it... it does copy into another layer....

Have you tried searching adobe's site for any answers?... you might find something there, I didn't...

Why wouldn't you want seperate layers anyways? Layers are your friend.....

Alternatively ... after you are done placing all the forest you want.... you can hide all the other layers, then Shift+ctr+E to merge visible.... that at least makes the one extra step at the end so you don't have to keep merging....

[Turgenev]

Alternatively ... after you are done placing all the forest you want.... you can hide all the other layers, then Shift+ctr+E to merge visible.... that at least makes the one extra step at the end so you don't have to keep merging....

Or alternatively, click on the little link box (next to the visibility eye) on the layers you want to merge. This not only allows you to move the many images as one unit but it also allows you to merge all those layers at once (instead of doing each layer one at a time or turning off visibility on layers to do a merge visible). I wouldn't know what to do without layers. They are a godsend.

[NymTevlyn]

Why wouldn't you want seperate layers anyways? Layers are your friend.....

Because I don't need layers while making a forest out of map symbols. They're all going to be on the same layer anyways.

Alternatively ... after you are done placing all the forest you want.... you can hide all the other layers, then Shift+ctr+E to merge visible.... that at least makes the one extra step at the end so you don't have to keep merging....

I have tons of layers for everything. In the end, I have just used the alt + drag and drop method and then ctrl E until all that tree layers are merged. Linking prevents alt + drag drop and would take longer than mashing ctrl E.