Layer Styles - How to spread evenly over two layers

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

Hey all, I was doing a pratice animation where I had a shiney smiley face that had his tounge stick out. What I did to do this was take a circle and cut it into two, so that the tounge layer could slide under the uper half of the circle so that it would apear as if it were going in his mouth. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way of distributing the layer style properties of both the top and bottom half of the circle layer so that the shiney effect would look like its acting on only one layer. Thank you all for your help. I'm certinally not a PSCS n00b, so I don't mind if you get complicated on me.

ConceptualMind · 06-10-2004

Hey Zac3010, welcome to BioRUST.

Could you upload a picture to help explain what you're talking about? Or if you don't mind, upload the .PSD

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

Will do, give me a sec, I'll put it on my webserver.

ConceptualMind · 06-10-2004

If you wanted to, you could attach the file.

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

Here you go man, thanks so much for the help. I'm just trying to learn about the more complicated aspects of PS.

Happy Face

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Subject2Failure

If you wanted to, you could attach the file.

My bad, oh well. Once you DL it I'll delete it. Sry, I'm new the the forums lol, oh, and thanks for the welcome. I think I will be comming back all the time now!

Yusecki · 06-10-2004

Well me being me would probably take a more difficult approach (though its the only I can think of)

I'd goto the state where the tounge is out the furthest then gradually shift it up and using the erase to delete it as I go, but being careful to make sure the movement looks smooth. That would then allow me to have a full circle in the backround and also keep the layer smooth.

Oh and hiya

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

I do understand how to do that, and that is how I started animating when I first discovered Image Ready. Now that I'm more advanced I have moved to splitting the picture into different layers. While I was teaching myself about using the move tool to position multiple images equal distances apart, I discovered this problem while going to animate the image. I want to learn a better way to correct it so I can advance in my level of Photoshop knowledge. Thanks for trying though. Oh, and nice to meet you btw!

muffins · 06-10-2004

i would make the smiley, minuse the tounge. then after applying effects/whatever, rasterize the layer, cut it in two, then do the animation

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

It won't let me do that just to a stright picture, it says that I can only rasterize text, shapes and whatnot, not just styles. Nice to meet you too.

muffins · 06-10-2004

oooo no i said rasterize, but i meant my way of bootleg simplifying. i call it fasterizing

make a new layer above and below the layer with styles you wanna "fasterize" (sandwich it), then merge the 3 layers

Yusecki · 06-10-2004

In that case try making a new layer (with all unwanted layers hidden) and just merge your new, yet empty, layer with the layers you want to rasterse. That way you get the effect of rasterising.

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

Wow, great idea, and that is what you just said. Why wouldn't that be an effect available in PS??? Although this solves the immediate problem, is there still a way to keep my layer styles intact?

muffins · 06-10-2004

there is no way to keep your styles intact over multiple layers in the current version of ps

Zac3010 · 06-10-2004

Well, that certinally solves that.

Maybe we should write the nice programers at Adobe, lol. Thanks all, you guys were great help!