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

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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Neos_le_dragon Posted messages 8 Status Member
 
Before merging with the 2 linked layers:
https://www.zupimages.net/up/16/37/afea.png

After, it's as if the top layer had been merged in normal mode
https://www.zupimages.net/up/16/37/foil.png
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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