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4. Click the parchment window to activate that file.
Like the file you created, this file has only one layer — Background. Every scan and
digital photograph has this characteristic.

5. With nothing selected, choose the Move tool at the top of the Tools panel.

6. Click in the parchment file window and drag to the forefathers.psd file window.

Since you didn’t select anything specific in the parchment file, you can drag the entire
active layer into another file.

Move tool

The Background layer
in the parchment.tif
file is automatically
selected.

Click and drag from
the parchment.tif
window to the
forefathers.psd window.

When you release the mouse button, the forefathers.psd file — where you dragged
to — is active and it now has two layers: Background (the one you created) and Layer 1
(the parchment image you just copied). When you copy or drag a layer from one file
into another, it is automatically placed on a new layer with the default name “Layer n”,
where “n” is a sequential number.

Dragging the parchment
file onto the forefathers
file generates a new
layer (Layer 1) for the
dragged image layer.

When you release the
mouse button, the
forefather.psd file
becomes the active file.

The parchment image was scanned in RGB color mode, as you can see in the
document’s tab. Photoshop cannot maintain multiple color modes in a single file. The
RGB parchment image layer is automatically converted to the CMYK color mode you’re
using in the background file.

7. Close the parchment.tif file.

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