: Photoshop CC - Use one Layer in different groups with different effects? I have designed the background picture for our company phones. It changes slightly with seasons and on special occasions.

@Merenda852

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I have designed the background picture for our company phones.
It changes slightly with seasons and on special occasions.

What I would like to do:
have one layer (eg with numbers for ambulance an police) linked to multiple layer groups (lets say they are called "summer", "autumn", "soccer em 2016"). In these groups I want to assign blending styles, masks and even rotate this layer.
So when I update the text in this layer it's updated in any "copy" but with it's distinctive "styles" of the layer group and I do not have to redo all steps i did before.
Example: in the summer layer the text is unmodified. In the "autumn layer" i need a mask so an additonal layer with flying leafs looks like as if some leafs are before and others are behind the text. In the "soccer em 2016" i need to rotate and re-position the text slightly so it looks like a soccer playing is shooting it through the phone.

is this possible?
If not, how would you solve this?

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