Not flattening with the background?

[KonArtist]

I was wondering if there was a way to flatten an image without the background. Is it possible with Paint.NET, because merging will change the Blending Mode.

[ZizOiz]

try unchecking the visibility boxes for all of the layers you don't want to flatten, and then, as a tip by Madjik from the PDN Tips and Tricks thread states, press control-A, control-shift-F,control-C,control-Z, control-shift-N, control-V and now you have a copy of only the layers you want when flattened. Hope this helps!

here is the original tip:

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c. You want to keep/copy the 14 layers image state into a new layer:

...Ctrl+A (select all)

...Ctrl+Shift+F (flatten)

...Ctrl+C (copy)

...Ctrl+Z (undo : flatten)

...Ctrl+Shift+V (paste in a new layer)

it's a tip, there is other ways to do that...

[KonArtist]

Thank you I will bookmark this link so I always know how to do it! BTW thanks for the help!