Merge Visible and Flatten Image

[ronnie_sjr]

Anyone knows whats the diff?? :dunno:

 

[Adiemus]

Well, if you are refering to Photoshop.

Merge visible is to merge the layers that are visible. There may be layers that are not shown (non-visible). These non-visible layers will not be merged.

To flatten the image, is to merge all the layers visible,non-visible and the background layer into one single layer.

 

[ronnie_sjr]

I see.. What are some examples of non-visible layers? Where do they get generated from, or as a result of?

 

[user12343]

if i not wrong, if u click the eye icon next to the layer in the Layers palette, you are making it non-visible. those layers might be intermediate layers in a process that you dun want them to be merged in the final flattened output.