Mutating layer effects

In article <c1grfk$4mj$>, "jayeff"
wrote:

I’ve been wrestling with the layer style palette, trying to get a groovy corroded metal effect. Looks awesome till I come to flatten the image then mutates into a piece of crap. What fundamental am I missing here, is there a way round this problem? (I’m using 6.0 BTW)

May I ask why you are flattening the layers? (I’ve never experienced this problem, otherwise I’d certainly answer.)

"jjs" wrote in message

In article <c1grfk$4mj$>, "jayeff"
wrote:

I’ve been wrestling with the layer style palette, trying to get a groovy corroded metal effect. Looks awesome till I come to flatten the image

then

mutates into a piece of crap. What fundamental am I missing here, is

there a

way round this problem? (I’m using 6.0 BTW)

May I ask why you are flattening the layers? (I’ve never experienced this problem, otherwise I’d certainly answer.)

It’s for the background of the page layout in a publication, so needs to be a tif.

Jay

"jayeff" wrote in
news:c1gtgn$2uc$:

"jjs" wrote in message

In article <c1grfk$4mj$>, "jayeff"
wrote:

I’ve been wrestling with the layer style palette, trying to get a groovy corroded metal effect. Looks awesome till I come to flatten the image

then

mutates into a piece of crap. What fundamental am I missing here, is

there a

way round this problem? (I’m using 6.0 BTW)

May I ask why you are flattening the layers? (I’ve never experienced this problem, otherwise I’d certainly answer.)

It’s for the background of the page layout in a publication, so needs to be a tif.

Upgrade to 7 and you can keep the layers and layer styles (and most everything else that PSD can) and still place it as a Tiff, no problems.

(If nothing else, at least do yourself the favor of downloading the 6.01 update).

"jayeff" wrote in message

I’ve been wrestling with the layer style palette, trying to get a groovy corroded metal effect. Looks awesome till I come to flatten the image then mutates into a piece of crap.

Could you be more explicit about the meaning of "awesome" and "crap"? Are you viewing at 100% magnification?

In article , Eric Gill
wrote:

[…]
(If nothing else, at least do yourself the favor of downloading the 6.01 update).

FWIW, 6.01 doesn’t add the layer save option to TIFF. At least on the Mac.

It’s for the background of the page layout in a publication, so needs to be a tif.

Upgrade to 7 and you can keep the layers and layer styles (and most everything else that PSD can) and still place it as a Tiff, no problems.
(If nothing else, at least do yourself the favor of downloading the 6.01 update).

Ok thanks. Can’t afford it right now 🙁 but for a feature like that I’d be more inclined to stump up the readies.

J

"Warren Sarle" wrote in message

"jayeff" wrote in message

I’ve been wrestling with the layer style palette, trying to get a groovy corroded metal effect. Looks awesome till I come to flatten the image

then

mutates into a piece of crap.

Could you be more explicit about the meaning of "awesome" and "crap"?

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Are you viewing at 100% magnification?

Now that’s interesting, at 100% the flattened and unflattened versions look the same, unfortuantely my system isn’t powerful enough to keep up with me so I’ll have to cut some corners with the design. Exaggerating the effects in the psd version seems to get something I can live with when the flattening process smears all my lovely textures and dulls all the colouring and shading.

Jay

(jjs) wrote in
news::

In article , Eric Gill
wrote:

[…]
(If nothing else, at least do yourself the favor of downloading the
6.01 update).

FWIW, 6.01 doesn’t add the layer save option to TIFF. At least on the Mac.

It does (there is no dialog for "Save Layers", it just does so), but to my surprise I learned that the Layer Styles are not saved, making it something of a booby trap for people who use them.

I’ve been wrestling with the layer style palette, trying to get a groovy corroded metal effect. Looks awesome till I come to flatten the image then mutates into a piece of crap.

Common complaint, but it’s not accurate.

Look at the image at 100% magnification. The flattened and unflattened versions of the image are always 100% pixel-for-pixel identical; the layer effects do not change.

However, when you zoom out, the flattened and unflattened versions may look slightly different, because the interpolated version you see on your screen when you zoom out may not be the same–because in the unflattened version, each layer and each effect is interpolated separately, and in the flatened version, they’re all interpolated together.

Always look at the image at 100% magnification when you are judging the effect of layer styles or effects.

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Doh!

Ok thanks.

Jay

"Tacit" wrote in message

I’ve been wrestling with the layer style palette, trying to get a groovy corroded metal effect. Looks awesome till I come to flatten the image

then

mutates into a piece of crap.

Common complaint, but it’s not accurate.

Look at the image at 100% magnification. The flattened and unflattened

versions

of the image are always 100% pixel-for-pixel identical; the layer effects

do

not change.

However, when you zoom out, the flattened and unflattened versions may

look

slightly different, because the interpolated version you see on your

screen

when you zoom out may not be the same–because in the unflattened version,

each

layer and each effect is interpolated separately, and in the flatened

version,

they’re all interpolated together.

Always look at the image at 100% magnification when you are judging the

effect

of layer styles or effects.

—
Rude T-shirts for a rude age: http://www.villaintees.com Art, literature, shareware, polyamory, kink, and more:
http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html