Thanks for the input but I still have not solved the problem. I tried merging the layer with the blending options with empty layers both above and below and I even moved into its own file and tried but same results.
Thanks for the input but I still have not solved the problem. I tried merging the layer with the blending options with empty layers both above and below and I even moved into its own file and tried but same results.
i have found if i have only the layers visable that i want to merge, and then choose Merge Visable rather than Merge Down... the appearance of the new merged layer does not change as much.
phil
Ok, try this. I had some funky merge-blending problems last year and it just came back to memory. Turn off where I circled the red.
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Well I tried merge visible instead technique a few of you offered and that did not work. I also checked the blending options as well. I do not have the "Blend Interrior Effects as Group" enabled anywhere since it has a default position of off (I checked them to be sure).
Strange problem. Do you think it has something to do with the Outer Glow effect since it has a default blending mode of screen?
In the end, I would like to merge down some layers to reduce my clutter but I guess can leave it as is.
Hrm, well the last thing that I could suggest is to make duplicates of the layer in question and put only 1 layer style on each layer then merge them together and by getting rid of one layer style at a time you can find out which is the troubling one. Oh, also make sure to set the fill on all of the layers to zero except for the first, bottom, layer.
Here's another thing, if you have a blend mode of soft light or hard light, when you merge that to something it gets messed up frequently so you will then have to set the layer's blend mode to soft light or hard light in order to replicate the layer style blend mode.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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