Robert
Got to the main menu and select > Layers > Flatten Image and all layers will be on the Backgroung.
What I would like to know is how did you get all the lines on separate layers, as that is are really neat trick?
Grant
Are you sure you are using the Pencil tool? It sounds very much like you are using the Line tool under the Custom Shapes tools. This is a vector line (i.e. a closed shape that looks like a line) and will appear on the layers palette with the gray background to indicate this. Each time you start and stop when drawing with this tool it will add a new layer as if you were drawing a new shape.
If you want to draw with the Line-Shape tool and want to keep everything on one layer…after you draw the first line, look up on the options toolbar choose the option to "Add to Shape Area."
If you want your lines layer to appear as other layers, right click on that layer on the layers palette and choose Simplify layer.
I may be reading between the lines (pun) wrong, if so, ignore this post.
Patti
Grant and Patti Hello,
Thanks for the ‘life saver’ – of course it was my inattention to mistake the line tool (part of the shapes quartet icons) for a pencil…and the rest is history. (in my younger days I saw a sign in the machine room of a large office bldg:"If all else fails, read the instructions"… it is time for me to hang this sign on the monitor.) I will try the ‘layer>flatten’ command as well, I never quite understood the purpose of it before, but I never needed it because until now I worked with "ready" items 9photos, painting reporductions etc.) with assist from the
"T" type and font material. (In the process learning an awful lot from your and others kind assitance when i ran aground.)
Thanks again.
Robert,
Another way to create a straight line is with the paint brush tool, holding down the shift key as you paint the line. If you need to position it precisely, open the grid (View>show grid.)
Ken
Ken, thanks – your help message is just in time since I was unable to draw truly straight lines with the mouse alone. Now I see ‘new horizons’ opening with the aid of the ‘shift’. Yours Robert H.
Robert,
Glad that this works for you.
Ken
