I do some interface work too, using layer effects sometimes. I made an Action for that does the Vig thing, works really well. New Layer Merge Duplicate Set selection Set channel Alpha1 to selection Delete layer Set selection to none
File not found. Off the top of my head without seeing the image, it sounds like you could make an action out of this. Just record it once and play it back for each layer. You should be able to: - Ccreate a new layer "ALT-Merge Visible" (which won't destroy any layers) - Create a new layer fill it with black select…
It depends on the settings you use actually. You have the option to select for web, which gives you gif or png, or for print and you can use an alpha channel as your mask or a clipping path which programs like Quark use to clip out unwanted areas of the image. At any rate I rarely use it as I prefer doing it by hand and…