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bijouz
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September 1, 2018
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style effects change after merging

  • September 1, 2018
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the latest update of photoshop is driving me a bit crazy 😉
Not sure all my latest issues are the result of the update but boy...
very annoying is the fact that when I merge my layers , my style effects change very badly
I took some screenshots .The bevel and shine really look different after merging ( bottom picture)
My settings are standard and with those same settings I used style effects before and never had an issue with it
After merging my result always stayed the same .Now it's like a gambling game what it will look like after merging

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      Correct answer davescm

      Hello Jeff, I understand what you are saying.And yes, when I view it at 100 I see no change but then I only see a tiny bit of the whole image.Impossible to have an idea of  the style effect in it's totality
      I always work on very large files for printing very big afterwards , so working at 100 procent view  is not possible
      Also, for posting on the web, I downsample the edits so much smaller the style effects should look okay too
      The strange thing is I never had that issue before
      Always worked on large files in "fit on screen" mode , did my style effects and when I made a "merge al layers" on top , the merged layer looked exactly the same as the result beneath.Now when I click the top layer on an off, there is a very big difference


      Hi

      There is a reason for the change when viewing at levels less tthan 100%.  When you view an image at less than 66.7% zoom, the blending is done using 8 bit previews not the full image pixels. This is historic and was probably done to speed up screen redraws with multi layered files. Most of the time the impact is not/hardly visible but occasionally (as in this case) differences are noticable. Hence the advice always to check at 100% zoom where you are seeing the actual image pixels blended on each layer.

      Dave

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      bijouzAuthor
      Inspiring
      September 1, 2018

      that is the problem, as soon as I merge the style effect to a single layer, the effect ( bevel and emboss in particular) goes away.
      So far I found no way to keep the effect intact when merging.

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      DeanUtianCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 1, 2018

      Does your image change when you save as a new file that is a single layer?

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      bijouzAuthor
      Inspiring
      September 1, 2018

      allrighty , I digged into a little deeper and noticed that only the bevel and emboss was causing the issue
      So I disabled all the effects in the layer style options dialog box and then one by one enabled them and merged all after each enable to see wich one was causing the problem
      when I enabled the bevel and emboss again and merged everything , there was the devil :-)
      So then I made some changes to the bevel and emboss ( the thickness of the bevel and the blending mode set from color dodge to screen) and then when I merged everything , I still had a slight change but nothing real bad
      So probably not an update issue but a wacky style issue

      Jeff Arola
      Community Expert
      Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 1, 2018

      Did you view your image at 100% (actual pixels) before, during and after the merge?

      That's the only screen view percent that gives accurate results.

      Other screen percent views are interpolated, so one cannot tell the true results of merging.

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      bijouzAuthor
      Inspiring
      September 1, 2018

      Hello Jeff, I understand what you are saying.And yes, when I view it at 100 I see no change but then I only see a tiny bit of the whole image.Impossible to have an idea of  the style effect in it's totality
      I always work on very large files for printing very big afterwards , so working at 100 procent view  is not possible
      Also, for posting on the web, I downsample the edits so much smaller the style effects should look okay too
      The strange thing is I never had that issue before
      Always worked on large files in "fit on screen" mode , did my style effects and when I made a "merge al layers" on top , the merged layer looked exactly the same as the result beneath.Now when I click the top layer on an off, there is a very big difference

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