Re: Can layers be unflattened??
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:21 am
Rusty I did not know that little trick. thank you I hope that saves me grief down the road.
A friendly place to learn.
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Rusty wrote: Not to beat it to death ... but
use different names when you save. We have all outsmarted ourselves when the flattened file gets saved on top of the PSD as a flat file.
What happens is, you save the PSD-file; it is in layers. Then you flatten the file and intend to save it as a Jpeg-file. You click "save" rather than "save as" and now you have a flat PSD-file with no layers. The only way to avoid this is to remember to always click "save as" or the alternative is, after you have saved the PSD-file, then click File > Duplicate; that prompts you to give it a new (different) name. That is the file you flatten. Then when you save it it doesn't matter whether you save as Jpeg or PSD, your layered file is not disturbed.
Rusty