photoshop oddness
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- rabattski
i'm going mental. so i have this hi-res cmyk photoshop doc which includes a type layer with some effects (stone engraving) on it as well as a 0% fill. but when i flatten that document it loses most of that effect. what happens is that the deepness of the engraving seems to be cut to half. wtf? anyone know what is the best way to flatten an image and keep all the effects?
- ribit0
it shouldnt doo that should it? Maybe try rasterizing the layer first, before flattening?
- rabattski0
nope. have tried that already. also tried creating layers from the fx's (ps7). have tried doubling the depthness and flattening it again without desired results. nothing works. yeah it shouldn't do that. very very odd. and ofcourse that happens when you have a deadline. thanks though. anyone else?
- dstlb0
Have you tried doing a 'File > Copy merged' on it? Same result as saving a flat file?
- rabattski0
just tried it. without any result. sigh. thanks though.
- puter0
create new layer-
SHIFT-OPTION-APPLE-E
or
SHIFT-WINDOWS-ALT-E
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snaps image of all layers..basically creating a flattened image.SELECT ALL
COPY
CREATE NEW DOCUMENT
PASTEboom there is your flattened image with everything intacted
- rabattski0
wow! i just figured it out. thing is it was going ok all the time. it's the preview that messes it up. the preview of the original photoshop file shows a lot more depth etc. when i flatten it it loses that. but that's when i watch it at 33,3%. when i watch it at 100% than it's exactly the same. still very odd though. never experienced such a big difference.
- rabattski0
just another reason for not using ps7. have run into so many problems with 7. gonna switch back to 5.5 though.
- stewart0
3.0 forever
- rabattski0
isn't 3.0 the first photoshop version which had layers?
- ribit0
yep... before that you had to fake it using channels...thank god I came in at 3.0
- rabattski0
i know. i actually worked with photoshop pre 3 point 0. yes i'm old. and layers was a gift from heaven. still is. except if you do dcs than it's still layer-less.
- laurus0
It happens beacuse the intermidiate magnifications are approximations (66%, 244%), unlike 25%,50%, 100%.
so the calculetions between a layered doc or a flatenned doc may vary a bit.