Sending Photoshop Layer Styles to their own layer

[dc dalton]

I KNOW this can be done, I use to teach it to my students years ago but Ive forgotten and ITS MAKING ME MAD!

What the heck is the command (or menu item) to move a layer style to its own layer, unlinking it from the layer it was attached to?

BTW, P'Shop 7!

thanks!

[Varelse]

Right click on the layer and select "clear/copy/paste layer style"?
Is it what You were looking for?

[dc dalton]

NO there was some command or something hidden in one of the menus I learned at one of the p'shop seminars where you can send the layer styles to their own layer so you can play with them "unlinked" from the original one..

[Varelse]

Oh, OK... I'm sorry but I've never seen this one

[dc dalton]

EHH, I found it! YEAH! I knew you could do it ... just had been so long since I had done it I couldnt remember...

For those of you that want to know heres how:

select the layer with the layer style you want "seperated" from its parent layer... then click layer > layer style > create layer ..... boom, moves your style to its own layer!

[Varelse]

Oh, this one! But still there are some layer styles that cannot be reproduced in this way
When "exploded" to layers, they will give slightly different result, as far as I remember.
Thanks for reminding me about this old trick!