Tigris

I think you can have that effect if the layers are kept without seeing them and with there blending modes intact, A new format is born ^^.

Its clear to me now, I will just merge everything at the end or merge layers with normal blending mode. It's going to be a bit less convenient but that's not a problem.

I use "Image > Flatten" without the black background and then I add the black background later to see the result. So the solutions seems to be to only merge the final image with the background it is going to get? The image I am working on now is just a small part.

I've made these simple pdn's which clearly show the difference after merging: http://www.mediafire.com/download/55cbdfv99wyuyhq/Images.zip

It changes by flattening and I tried the above described methods to avoid changes. You get the same problem when you have only 3 layers but the changes are less visible for the additive layer; Background is normal, layer 1 is additive and layer 2 is overlay. I add a black background layer to see the difference between the merged and the unmerged images.

Saving an image as a .tga flattens, the same as Ctrl + Shift + F so I have tried that. The method of @barbieq25 does not work either.

Hello beautiful and creative creatures, I am trying to merge 6 layers without changing the look, the first layer has mode Normal, 4 layers on top has mode Additive and the last layer has mode Overlay with opacity of 64. I tried different orders or saving directly as a tga but it still changes, making a screen shot is not an option because it has lots of alpha values. The merged and the unmerged image looks the same without a black background. Does anyone know how to merge these layers together without changing?

Good day all, It has been discussed before but I really hope it can be changed. Automatic change active layer to the layer beneath when the active layer is made invisible with the checkbox, this feature is very annoying and I hope it can be made optional in future.

Please make an option to turn off that stupid automatic change active layer or is there another fix for it?