Merging Layers in Painter

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:10 pm

How do I merge layers in Painter? I don't know how and it's driving me crazy! There's a drop feature, but that merges the layer to the canvas. I can't find any reference to merging in the Painter Help sections. This is so frustrating!

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:01 am

I believe in Painter it's called "grouping".

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:44 am

Wait, but doesn't Grouping in Painter mean the same thing as Grouping in Photoshop?

Plothole · Post by **Plothole** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:46 am

In the Essentials verson of painter you start by grouping the layers you wanna merge , then select 'colapse'.

I'd assume it works the same way in the full version.

ShineDog · Post by **ShineDog** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:04 pm

BEWARE merging certain styles of layers in painter. particularly watercolours, painter is a NOTORIOUSLY buggy piece of software.

SAVE SAVE SAVE.

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:10 pm

Thanks everyone, I'll try the collapse thing later tonight.

And Shinedog--YES

. It has shut down 2 times already and I never used to save until I finished. EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED.