Cheesmeet Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 I bought Affinity Photo not so long ago, came from photoshop. I was wondering how I can merge selected layers? When selecting multiple layers I can only see merge visible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted April 24, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 24, 2018 Hi Cheesmeet, Welcome to the forums! You can use merge visible layers as you have mentioned, which is a non destructive way of merging multiple layers to one new pixel layer. Another option is to go to Document > Flatten, however this will merge ALL layers together into one rasterised pixel layer. Also, you can select multiple layers, group them together and then rasterise them, giving you more control than Flatten but this is destructive. Cheesmeet and Uncle Mez 2 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesmeet Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 ok. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Yet another destructive way to do this (& maybe the simplest) is to select several layers in the Layers panel & from the Layer menu, choose "Merge Selected" (or use the keyboard shortcut for that). This works for pixel, image & text layers, rasterizing & merging them into one layer in one step. It will ignore vector object layers, so to include them in the merge you must first rasterize them separately. Cheesmeet 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mez Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 @Cheesmeet please considère toi select the option "save with history" It will generate a bigger file but at least you will keep all steps of you project And come back if needed. Don't know if its possible with photo but you should consider to check "continuous" along with export. Should be of great help in your workflow. Cheesmeet 1 Quote Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesmeet Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 thank you RC-R and Arnaud, that actually helped me tons! Uncle Mez 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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