look at the picture, it seems I used a brush to do the red line and inner blue and outter white but I can't replicate the exact thing can you guys tell me what tools I used? The line at the bottom is the one I want to replicate. The line at the top is the one I get from simulating settings.
both methods do the work but the inner and outer glow method is a bit more tedious you have to adjust the element size and choke and adjust the contour quality as well. I guess my second question is how to flatten the layer so I can erase certain parts without it auto shapping.
Did I say it right? hopefully you get it.
20,929 posts I suggest you don't use the eraser for that - use a Layer Mask, and check the Layer Mask Hides Effects option in the Blending Options. Paint black on the Layer Mask to hide pixels, white to reveal them, gray to partially reveal them.
If you'd really rather "bake" the effects into the pixels and use the Eraser Tool, you can do that by choosing Rasterize - Layer Style:
-Noel
Make a new blank layer below palo 2, click back on palo 2 and choose Layer>Merge Down or Ctrl+E
Or if you want to maintain the layer name, make a blank layer below palo 2, click back on palo 2 and beside the blank layer, click in the box just to the right of the eye icon on
the blank layer to link the layers. Then go to Layer>Merge Linked or Ctrl+E
Message was edited by: R_Kelly
Using a layer mask as Noel suggested is the best way to edit the layer (hide parts of the layer), but if you still want to flatten the effects into your pixel layer
you could record an action to speed things up.
You can download the above action here:
https://acrobat.com/#d=FFz-aQWnDgQKI0dSxvgFqQ
After unzipping the file, load the action into the actions palette.
Then target the layer with the layer styes and run the action.
