Photoshop - Flatten before printing?

[Uhooru]

Late post on this, but I loaded CS2 last week, was using CS and I was working on a file

Friday and it had several layers and when I went to flatten, the same loss discussed

happened and I tried several things I think it occured when there were several adjustment

layers some of them levels.

 

I sort of got around it by creating layer slices when I wanted to work adjust levels on just a

small area, such as various highlights. I was basically playing and am not sure how I was

creating little "mini" layers, but this seemed to solve the problem and make for a smaller

file size as well.

[sean de merchant httpw]

Barry,

 

Did this occur when you were viewing at 100% zoom? If not, then caching is likely your demon. The caches in PS are used to speed up display and this can lead to display errors (what you see is not what you have) so when you flatten you get what you have rather what you saw.

 

There is no bug here, just a facet of using caches to create a rapid approximation for screen display.

 

enjoy,

 

Sean (who would like to see an example where this occurs at 100% zoom)