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Summary: Merging layers in Photoshop results in the bottom layer's settings or filters remaining. Learn to merge layers down in Photoshop CS3 in this free Photoshop tutorial video.
Julio Costilla has been shooting photos since the age of 14. His dream was to become a professional photographer before the age of 25, which he made with years to spare. He owns and...read more
"The Adobe photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so in this tutorial I'm going to actually be talking about merging all of these images together. Because, if we would like to work on this and we go to image adjustment. It's not going to let us. It's not going to let us go in and change colors and curves and all that. So what your going to have to do is go here, zoom in on this little triangle that I'm at. Click on it, and you want to click on merge visible clip, merge layers, I'm sorry. So you click merge layers and as you can see, it automatically just gives this one layer here to work with. If you turn it off and on you can see it's just one. Now you go to image adjustments, we can actually adjust our adjustments here to whatever we like. I wanted to show you that because for some people they would not understand that you would need to merge everything before being able to work on your image. That is basically merging layers or merging visible layers. It needs to be done. It has to be done if your want to keep working with your images because it's not going to look completed. You need to be able to keep on working and keep on going. I'm going to show you on the next tutorial a little bit about cleaning up the image, just a little bit."
eHow Article: Merging Layers in Photoshop CS3