ok.... to the point, eventually. There are people, like me, who have a mental block about certain functions.
For example my wife plays the card game Canasta, and has played it successfully for many years. I have NEVER been able to grasp the concept of that game.
The same has applied to the masking process in PSE.
Note that I used the past tense in that sentence.
First of all, I came to this forum to vent my frustration, without the expectation of such a group of individuals such as yourselves willing to persist with your efforts to help me.
I intended to wave my "SCREW THIS" sign and as one of you stated; leave the building.
Although you, Greg, were essentially a "keystone in the bridge" in this adventure, I have to credit all of you.
In PSE the ability to "APPLY LAYER" is in a seperate menu window from the applicable menu options that indicate merging visible, merging down, merge all layers. That seperate window does not even use the word merge. Rather it says apply layer. It doesnt say, apply or merge masked layer.
For so many years this ambigious logic escaped me. Obviously I would always go to the bottom of the layer window where the software would provide the above mentioned "MERGE" options. In my extraterrestial logic [the term applied by my daughter, who often asks what planet did I come from] the ONLY options available was where the program indicated merge options, and NOT apply layer, under a seperate menu window.
So at this time, I am not going to finger point at Adobe, regardless of this twisted logic [my opinon] and just accept that I had an extraterrestial moment for the last 8 years.
So after an 8 years love/hate relationship with this process, I finally have a solution; and now I can move on with ideas and projects that have sat in limbo for 8 years.
Thank you again to all of you, for your valuable assistance and encouragement!
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