Diaspar Was Not Always Thus

“But we should never forget that what we call complicated or even wonderful is not at all wonderful for Nature, but quite ordinary. We always tend to project into other things our own difficulties of understanding and to call them complicated, when in reality they are very simple and know nothing of our intellectual problems.”

—Carl Jung, Instinct and the Unconscious

The following tip works in Photoshop CS3 & CS4.

If you have ever merged multiple layers (Layer > Merge Layers) that have different blend modes you may have noticed that the blend mode effects are not maintained and the merged version looks different than the un-merged version.

Try this method instead:

1. Make sure that the layers you want to merge are the only ones visible.
2. Create a new blank layer and select it.
3. Use this keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E. This merges all visible layers onto the selected layer.
4. That’s it! You can now delete the layers that were merged and all of the blend mode effects should be maintained.

“But we should never forget that what we call complicated or even wonderful is not at all wonderful for Nature, but quite ordinary. We always tend to project into things our own difficulties of understanding and to call them complicated, when in reality they are very simple and know nothing of our intellectual problems.”

—Carl Jung, Instinct and the Unconscious

“Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen. Always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisel of other people, this analysis of other people’s motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presupposes a whole world-laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.”

—D.H. Lawrence, St. Mawr