potter

Yeah this would be the way to do it. In your layers window, create two folders/groups, then put the layers you want to be above the gap in one, and the layers you want below the gap in the other, expand the canvas and manually move the groups/folders.

There's no way for Photoshop to automatically do this (and you can't email adobe in hopes they'll add it in as a feature). Because there is no way for Photoshop to know what to move up and what to move down. How would PS be able to tell which of the layers were supposed to be the ones to move up, and the ones to move down. And what if you had a layer that stretched the whole canvas - is PS supposed to rip it in the middle - that would be bad.

You just have to learn to 1. Plan better and 2. Organize your layers and groups better so if the need arises to do something like this it's an easy task.

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