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LOL...No worries.

Usually you would have all your images on their respective layers in just one PSD file.

You would then use them in whatever manner befits the project.....including 'Stamp Visible' and 'Copy Merged'....both legit methods used in photoshop. This would remove the need for the 'Copy Merged' procedure as all the layers would already be in the 'project' file.

I didn't know if you had the 'Smoke' and the black BG in the same file so assumed you hadn't and suggested 'Copy Merged' as a quick way to get just the one layer into your main project file to work with.

In my [deleted] original post I also suggested that you could in fact save the 'Smoke' and black BG as its own PSD file and embed it into your project PSD file.....using it in exactly the same way as a normal layer.

The benefit of that is if you decide to change the colours of the smoke you could just edit the 'smoke' PSD file and the 'Project' PSD file would automatically update itself.

Or would that be 'hacking' too?

Regards.

MrTom.