Photoshop CS3: Insert new layer from File?

[InTheCube]

Hi.

I am working with Adobe Photoshop CS3, and was wondering if it is possible to insert an existing .psd Photoshop file as a new layer in my new document? I would like to use this for common files, like logos.

If tried Googling, but most of the answers go like this:

1. open up the file you want to insert
2. merge all the layers into one layer
3. select all
4. copy to clipboard
5. close file, don't save changes
6. paste image into new document

Now I find this kinda tedious, and dangerous as well. As a paraniod Windows user, and Software Engineer, I always screw up step 5. I have a subconscious habit of hitting CTRL+S every few seconds when working, saving changes at every step. However, I have very often lost ALL my layer information in Photoshop files, after doing the "Flatten Image" or "Merge Visible Layers" operations, then subsconsciiously hitting CTRL+S, without realising it, until the next time I open the file. And I don't use source control for Image files (maybe I should start), so that information is lost forever.

Is there a way I can just insert an entire .psd file as a single layer, and Photoshop will merge the layers for me, and preserve transparency so that I don't have to do this manually. Any changes to this layer should obviously not affect the original file.

I remember doing this many years ago (about 10) with one of Adobe's older image editing applications. It came before Photoshop 1, or around the same time, I think. It kept a list of all the previous files you worked on, and allowed you to insert each one as a new layer with a single click. It kept these files in a folder called "Hold". Anyone remember this?

Can anybody help me out here?

Thanks in advance!

 

[bwana]

I just select all and drag it in. Its automatically put on a new layer.

Or just use the place command (file, place)

EDIT - unless I'm missing what you want to do?

 

[InTheCube]

Or just use the place command (file, place)

AWESOME! Thanks dude.

Exactly what I was looking for.

I knew it had to be a function somewhere in Phtoshop. Just couldn't find it, and didn't know what it is called, or how to search Google for it.

 

[InTheCube]

Hi.
I remember doing this many years ago (about 10) with one of Adobe's older image editing applications. It came before Photoshop 1, or around the same time, I think. It kept a list of all the previous files you worked on, and allowed you to insert each one as a new layer with a single click. It kept these files in a folder called "Hold". Anyone remember this?

Does anybody remember this application?? It's kinda bugging me that I can't remember... Damn. I'm gonna be thinking of this the whole night.

UPDATE: I just remembered. It's called Adobe PhotoDeluxe.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Uhh... Wrong forum?