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Hello, Hope this is the right forum. Simple question: I create a new file with a white background. Next I open a digital color image. I select and move a portion of the digital image onto the first, white layer. I transform the image. I select the image layer and apply a gradient to the image layer and it covers the entire canvas, which I do not want. How do I apply filters only to the image layer? I want the original background to act as a frame. Thanks.

I'm having problems getting pseudo resources to work. I've written a format plug-in and I'm trying to store some text from the file header similar to the history resource in the SimpleFormat example. When I add the resource, I get no errors. If I check the resource count, it shows it has been added. However, whenever I save the file, the resource count always returns 0. What am I missing? I just need a place to preserve some text from the file's header. Thanks. Photoshop CS2 SDK, OSX 10.4.2