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Photoshop 5.5 or the version that comes in Adobe Production premium CS5.5.

The two text layers have bevel, stroke, shadow and perhaps one or two other blending options set.  When I attempt to merge these two layers and the base layer which is a photograph the blending effect that I see changes.  I read somewhere that the blending actually does not change because if your looking at your project zoomed out at 8% and then zoom in to 100% the amount of the blend changes due to scaling.  I think this is what is happening however it doesn't make artistic sense.  Because the whole point of zooming out to 8% or some other number is to be able to see your entire image that your building up.  So if you put the blending effects on the text at say 8% and you see it one way why would zooming in change that effect in any way?  Because at 8% you are looking at the whole image and setting the effects to your liking.  When you merge the layers or merge visible the blend options change quite a lot.  Then if you zoom in to 100% you still see the blend options however the amount of those blending options has been dramatically reduced to what your were expecting.  This just seems to not make sense.  Hopefully I'm making sense on this issue.