A couple of questions

[Vafann]

Hello! i need some help on a couple of questions that are probably pretty easy to solve, but I just can´t find them.

1- I see people around here talking about "stroke", like around fonts and things. What is it? My photoshop is in Swedish, if someone just tells me what it does or where it is located I can probably figure it out.

2- I have problems converting some images I make into Jpeg. When I flatten them there is no jpeg option to save them in. I assume that it is because I have used forms and layer styles and things. I have some kind of recollection that there is something you can do to "rasterize" it or something before you save it, but I can´t remember how.

Thank you in advance

Vafann

[Fairy]

Hello Vafann!

1- I don't know what's the best way to answer this, but for me stroke is anything thing that results from a single uninterrupted movement of the mouse. Be it a line or dot(sometimes a line is called a stroke).

2- I had a similar problem like that before, have you tried the File->Save As dialog?

[Hoogle]

Stroke is an outline around anything for example if you use the text tool it is located when you right hand click the layer in the layer panel and select blending options it is the bottom option it basically adds a border around the text you can change the thickness colour and opacity etc

as to jpegs it does not matter what the layers are because when you go to file > save as jpeg should be in the drop down menu and will automatically flatten the image to make the jpeg unfortunately I do not know swedish to give you the swedish menu commands sorry

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[Vafann]

Oh, ok thanks to both of you! I get the stroke thing now, but I still don´t quite understand the jpeg thing. So I shouldn´t flatten the image before I save it? I should just go to file "save as jpeg" and it will flatten the layers itself into that format? That kind of confuses me because if you can do it that way, what is the point in flattening anything to begin with? I also wonder what the difference is between the different options " Flatten layers downwards", "Flatten visible layers", and "make into one layer" (I suppose it´s something like that in English too). It doesn´t seem to make any difference which of these options I choose, they all just seem to flatten all the layers into one background layer anyway. I don´t get it.

[Hoogle]

there are certain file types that will supportlayers but photoshop has the ability that when you click save as it will flatten the image and save it as any file type you choose but does not physically flatten the working psd document unless you flatten image. usually this is used for a quick save that can easily be viewed as to flatten and merge options
Merge down = will merge the layer you have right clicked on to the layer below so turning 2 layers into 1
merge visible = will merge all the layers that still have the little eye next to them (the layers that are still vissible and not hidden)
flatten image = will merge all layers together
merge layers = whilst holding down the shift key or cntrl key and selecting certain layers highlighting in blue it will merge those layers but any 1s inbetween will not be merged together

[Vafann]

OOOOOH!!! I seee! thank you! I am going to save your explanation as a note so i don´t forget.