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merge or flatten

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merge or flatten norman 19 Apr 13:56
  merge or flatten David Gowers 19 Apr 15:13
norman
2008-04-19 13:56:04 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

merge or flatten

Excuse my ignorance but how should I decide which to use, merge or flatten? I have read the book definitions but these do not help me in deciding which to use.

Norman

David Gowers
2008-04-19 15:13:51 UTC (almost 17 years ago)

merge or flatten

Hi norman,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:26 PM, norman wrote:

Excuse my ignorance but how should I decide which to use, merge or flatten? I have read the book definitions but these do not help me in deciding which to use.

If you want to preserve transparency (eg. create a result which is partially/entirely transparent in areas), use Merge Visible.
Flatten is just like pasting the result of 'merge visible' onto the background color, then removing the alpha channel. Merge Visible is just like what would happen if you remove all non-visible layers and then 'Merge down' until only one layer is left.

Hope that helps :)

David