: How can I keep my background layer always locked? The Background Layer is locked. I duplicated the file to Background Copy. Go to chop the Background Copy. The locked background changes

@Murphy569

You can only have one true Background layer at a time in a Photoshop document.

But you can lock a layer that has been duplicated from the background by...


Clicking the layer in the layers palette.





Click the lock button:
Now both the original Background and the new one will be locked (indicated by the padlocks on the right side of the layers).

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