[[Shizo]]

Ahh those things dont work for me!!! I kil everyone!

When i try to have a few layers in one after im finished with something and wanna have say a piece flattened (but not everything flattened) I go merge down one by one klayer.. Here i get total mess because layer effects screw up and it doesnt look the same merged one by one. Merge linked i think does the same thing but all at once.
The only merging i can do without changing layer effects would be Flatten Image?!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO

is there a way? show me the light! (i kis u then)


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[burn0ut]

yes Hide the layer you dont want flatend and then goto that lil arrow thin and hit merge visable or flatten visable , somethin like that

[Jonno]

yeah merged link works I think. I am pretty sure it merges them without changing the effect. either that or its merged down. one of them work. its possible..

[B]

i ususally merge link,.. i link al the parts of the image that i want to stick together, click on the little box net to the eye <when you do this it looks like a chain> then when i have them links, i hit layers/merge linked

[[Shizo]]

bah still no work :(
Tried merge visible and linked. But for example my burn layer left this black outline. But i guess its because of how i drew it.. Gonna have to be more neato next time so i dont get pixells outside area i want to flatten ehe

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[seas]

just hide the layers that you don't want to be merged, then edit/duplicate image/flatten image ....uhh....i think...

or if not that works, link the layers you want to merge, then select the downermost layer...that should work...uhmm....yeah...

[surphun]

yeah, there's a work around. say you have 2 layers that are set on color dodge and have an opacity of 45%. you can set the mode to normal, the opacity to 100%, merge them, set the mode to color dodge again, then set the opacity for the new layer to 45%....
oh yeah, merging layers with different layer options dosen't work well.....

surphun http://surphun.quadrent.net

[LeChuck]

Bahhh! Come on Shizo, How many Russians does it take to flatten a PhotoShop document. PUT THE VODKA DOWN!

[Nocturnal]

Shizo, after you've applied layer effects and you want them to merge but not smear together, try doing the following::

right click on the little black f circle on that layer. Then choose Create Layer. It will simply take that layer and flatten it without screwing up the effect. Then you can merge all you want.

-Nocturnal

[[Shizo]]

yay
surpun, nocturnal, seas
i got the trick
I was just painting on Background layer all the time, and thats why i flattened layers ABOVE it, it kept screwing

It works good now! Another PS "bug" i found yesterday.. it happened like this

1 - i opened a GIF image in indexed colors mode
2 - copied some shape on the image
3 - switched to RGB mode
4 - pasted the shape and its 50% transparent! LOL
I dont think there is a fix, and nobody would do that kind of thing except for me lol, but try it for fun sometime,.

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[This message has been edited by [Shizo] (edited April 22, 2000).]

[surphun]

I tried that shiz, and I didn't have a transparency bug. I'm runnin' ps 4.0. I think "you be trippin"

[[Shizo]]

Yeah then i figured out why it was transparent :)
Not because it was a GIF, but because i used Select/Color Range and i put it on too fuzzy :o It somehow selected the colors transparent

datz it =8-O


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