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Combining Layers

Question:

My picture has 7 different layers. I would like to combine some layers into one layer, but keep other layers separate. How do I do this?

Answer:

Combining layers is also know as merging layers. For those of you who don't know what a layer is, imagine an overhead projector transparency on which you have drawn a cat. Then you have another one with a dog, and a third with a ball. The three transparencies stacked on top of each other would present a single scene of a cat, a dog, and a ball. This is similar to the idea of what you can do with three layers in Photoshop.

To merge many layers into one layer:

1) Select the top menu option, Window, and then Show Layers.

2) You will see an "eye" icon next to each layer, meaning that the layer is visible. Click on the eye of the layers that you do NOT want to combine. They eye will disappear for those layers, and they layers will be invisible on the screen. In the image below, layer 7, 5, and 4 have been made invisible.

3) Now select the top menu option, Layer, then Merge Visble.

NOTE: if you had wanted to combine all layers, making an image with no layers, you could have chosen to "Flatten Image".

4) Now the proper layers are merged. You should make your remaining layers visible by clicking where their "eye" icons were.