Flattening layer styles whilst preserving Blend mode / BLURS

uncle_pinny

Hi there - hoping someone can help me.

I do a lot of work for TV and as such have to often provide flattened layered art to broadcasters. I flatten most layers and flatten layer styles as well.

Question: is there any way to preserve a layer style blend mode when flattening i.e. I have some rasterized text with an Outer glow. The outer glow has a Linear Burn blend mode (or similar).

Is there a way I can merge this layer complete with style to a flat layer and PRESERVE the way it looks? Often I try this and it looks different (obviously because there is a blend mode being implemented with the layer style.

Any pointers how to get around this? I use CS2 by the way.

Another one - I often whack stuff into After Effects and put on an adjustment layer at the top with a gaussian blue (so it blurs everything below). Is there a way to do this in Photoshop i.e. an adjustment layer placed at the top of the layer stack with a BLUR? Any workarounds people know of or is this just something I can do in After Effects?

Thanks in advance!

Matt · VIP

Hey there

Sorry to bring back an old thread but I'm wondering if you've sorted the problem?

This is a tricky subject, spent many a time trying to get layer styles, a flattened image, and After Effects to talk together nicely! One tip I can give you, although it's a basic one so you may already be using it, is when it comes time to flatten a layered PS file, start with the top 2 layers and merge them together, then grab the top layers again (one will be the merged layer you just created) and merge them together - keep doing this until you have a flattened image.

I'm pretty sure a blurred adjustment layer isn't possible in PS, not as a feature or a workaround!

Hope this helps

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