Copy from here...paste over there??

[Dubious Drewski]

So when you copy and then paste a selection, photoshop almost always pastes way far away from where I copied. Why does it do that and how can I make it stop?

I commonly need to be able to copy something and then paste in the exact same spot.

 

[dreq]

a workaround is duplicate layer: ctrl+j or command+j.

 

[Dubious Drewski]

Awesome, thanks. Why didn't I think of that?

That's a huge help for normal copy/paste, but there is one problem. What I'm trying to do is copy from a normal layer and paste into a mask channel, so Ctrl-J wouldn't work there. Is there another way?