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Merge 2 layers while retaining the blending style.

Neos_le_dragon -  
 Anonymous user -
Hello,

I have 2 layers that I would like to merge (there are others in the file and I want to keep the transparency so I can't "flatten" the image)
- 1 layer as "product"
- 1 other below in "normal" blending mode

I have linked the 2 layers together, but when I merge them, the one in "product" loses the qualities of its blending mode.
How can I make sure it retains them?

Thank you for your responses.

2 answers

  1. Anonymous user
     
    Hello

    when I merge them, the one in "product" loses the qualities of its blending mode

    ?
    normally merging two layers does not remove the effect of a blending mode
    could you please post a screenshot of your visible layers workspace

    thank you
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    2. Anonymous user
       
      ok
      if I saw correctly, on the normal layer there is the small red heart on an alpha background
      and on the layer you set to overlay, it's the outline of the snake
      question: why put this layer in overlay since the colored areas of these layers do not overlap?
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    3. Anonymous user
       
      Afterwards, it's as if the top layer had been merged in normal mode

      a blending mode is designed to produce an effect by mixing the pixels of a layer and the one underneath it in different ways
      for a blending mode to take effect, the areas of the layers concerned by the blending change must overlap
      otherwise, it is strictly useless!
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      1. Neos_le_dragon Posted messages 8 Status Member > Anonymous user
         
        Yes, they overlap, with the little red heart there's also the white of the eye ^^
        The outline of the snake is actually a scanned drawing that wasn't very well cut out, so in product mode, only the black lines are visible and the white is blended in and disappears :)
        After that, I made an example with the layer containing the eye and the heart, but the goal is to merge all the colors of the snake without the background!
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  2. Anonymous user
     
    They overlap, with the little red heart there is also the white of the eye

    Can you explain how the white of the eye can overlap with the heart?
    Or how the white of the eye and the red of the heart can overlap with the outline of the drawing?

    It doesn't change anything I told you:
    The blending modes are used to create effects
    In this case, it is about merging the heart and the black outline
    Merging layers does not require changing their blending mode

    The goal is to merge all the colors of the snake without the background!

    Well, you select the snake layers together and you make it either a smart object to be able to modify them later, or a rasterized layer
    And do this without changing their blending mode beforehand
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    1. Anonymous user
       
      To be more precise:

      your drawing is scanned, okay
      so your goal is to paint it
      to do this, we start by cleaning the line art
      to isolate it, we don't trace it, we extract it by going through the layers
      when the drawing is clean, on alpha, we paint by color on layers that we place underneath
      there is no need to change the blending mode, we just paint and that's it
      when it's done, we save it as .png and keep the psd with all the layers
      we can then place the colored drawing on the background of our choice
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    2. Neos_le_dragon Posted messages 8 Status Member
       
      Thank you for your advice, but you are not answering my question there.
      I saw in a book that you could put the outline of a drawing in product mode to make it easier, so I'm doing it that way.

      Anyway, it's not a big deal, I think the bug has disappeared.
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    3. Anonymous user
       
      but you are not answering my question

      I asked you why you changed the blending mode of this layer and you haven't answered me either
      we can still set a layer to multiply mode or other, no problem
      but we need to know why

      but anyway, if you think it comes from a bug and that it's fixed, all the better
      in that case, thank you for marking the topic as resolved

      have a nice day:)
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