Is it possible to "bake" the effect from a blend mode so it doesn't change after rasterising it?

[jordanm31908688]

This happens to me more often than not and haven't yet found a thread where someone mentions how this is possible, if it is at all?!

EXAMPLE:

Generic rectangle tool > layer style blend option drop shadow created > Use Divide as the blend mode for the drop shadow > RESULT = Funky effect = desired look

However

When you rasterise that layer style with the divide blend mode on the drop shadow applied, the shadow will revert back to its original normal blend mode

Is there any button or method I could do to rasterise the layer style with the blend mode applied/"baked" into the layer so I can edit it with the Divide effect applied still?

Can you raster blend mode I think is the short question here?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What do you mean by

When you rasterise that layer style

?

Do you mean Layer > Layer Styles > Create Layer/s?

As is often the case posting screenshots including the pertinent panels might have succeeded in communicating what is hard to describe using just words.

[jordanm31908688]

Yeah

[c.pfaffenbichler]

On the other hand a question like

Do you mean Layer > Layer Styles > Create Layer/s?

could be answered with one word.

Anyway: What you seem to be trying to achieve is not possible; as Layer Styles the components can utilise different Blend Modes, one single Layer (without Layer Styles) can by necessity only have one Blend Mode.

What is the problem about the Layer Style being present anyway?

[jordanm31908688]

I want to make a mask on the shadow so that I can make it look like it is overlapping the text on the side. Weaving it in and out of the text.

I have stumbled across wanting to rasterise my layer style more often than not and felt it was time to ask on the Adobe Forum.

Are you saying that it is not possible at all to effectively raster the blend mode from Divide to Normal and keep the same look applied at all in any way?

Because if not, that would be an excellent feature that could be used for loads of different new styles and ways or experimenting with layers if not, and surely that would be very easy to program into the program?

[davescm]

Hi

Try this -
1. Duplicate the shape layer complete with layer style (using Ctrl+J)

2. Turn the fill of the duplicate to 0%

3. Rasterize the layer style

4. Change the blend mode of the duplicate layer to Divide

5. Turn off the layer style on the original

You now have your rasterised shadow with divide blend mode on a separate layer

Dave

[jordanm31908688]

This is what I eventually did

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Would Layer > Layer Styles > Create Layer not have provided the same result?

[davescm]

c.pfaffenbichler  wrote

Would Layer > Layer Styles > Create Layer not have provided the same result?

Yes it would, with the slight exception that it would fill the shadow area. Why didn't I think of that

Dave

[c.pfaffenbichler]

surely that would be very easy to program into the program?

You are not the first victim of that fallacy but I am afraid you may not fully understand what Layer Blend Modes can do.

I want to make a mask on the shadow so that I can make it look like it is overlapping the text on the side.

Why would that necessitate reducing the Layer Style to a Normal Layer?