I am working on creating a picture of some full grandstands for a customer. He had pictures of some somewhat empty stands and pictures of small groups of people sitting here and there so I have been masking off, cleaning up groups of people and re-entering them into the empty stands to make them look like they are packed.
Mon. I worked on sticking people in the stands. I got part way done and closed the file and went home. It was still in layers when I closed it. Tues. when I open the file, it has become flattened. I then had to go back and mask and clean up around each group of people and start all over again with a new bleachers scene.
I then decided to take all my group of people and put in a separate file, with separate layers, so that I can take any group and put where they look best to fill in. I had to close that file but re-opened it later and I still had the layers.
I opened up that new bleachers scene this morning and the problem is, is that it has become flattened AGAIN. Any sugggestions?
Posted by Tony McDonald (Member # 1158) on :
I don't use photoshop but I think it's like Corel Photo paint which is a bitmap program. It's native format is bitmap. Whatever you save in that program will be combined into bitmap unless there is a save option that allows you to save with the masked objects.
Illustrator would leave your graphics they way you left them.
Edited part: What I would do is creat your people in photoshop and save them. Open your stands in illustrator and import your people and arrange them there and save. Should keep everything the way you left it.
[ August 29, 2003, 10:37 AM: Message edited by: Tony McDonald ]
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
check to see if the save layers is checked (or not). also try to save as *.psd with layers, it may be trying to save as the original (*.tif ?) and will flatten when it saves.
Posted by Golden (Member # 164) on :
Laura, The first thing that comes to mind is the possibility you accidentally have your software settings saving the file in a non-native Photoshop format. Make sure you have .PSD as the file format. Saving in many of the other formats will automatically flatten the image.
Mike Jackson
Posted by Mark Yearwood (Member # 2723) on :
What Mike said... save as .PSD and make sure to keep layers box checked.
Posted by Jeffrey Vrstal (Member # 2271) on :
Yes, what mike said... and if you do it that way and open it in corel... all of the layers will still be layers there as well.
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Any of you that know PhotoShop pretty good, know that PS is so extensive that I don't know if anyone knows it all. I think I am pretty much the photoshop guru in my area because other graphic people call me and ask me how to do this and how to do that.
But honestly, I feel like I only know the tip of the iceberg. I learned something with this post. I neve realized that the way to save layers was to save in a .psd file. (another daa moment) I would usually stay away from that because the files were so good. Thank you everyone that posted or called.
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
you can also save the layers using the *.tif format, but some older versions of different programs may not reconize them. PS7 will.
