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Introduction

Layer styles are easy to use shortcuts and a easy way to create effects, but they have limitations. So say, you have partially created a graphic using layerstyles and want to enhance it using other photoshop tools you will have to rasterize the layer styles. Photoshop dosent have an obvious 'one button press' way to do this, fortuantely its very easy to do manually.

Walk in the park

I assume that you already have the layer with the layerstyles that you want to rasterize.

• Create a new layer directly below it, .
• Then select the old layer in the layers panel
• Right click it and from the context menu choose merge down.

And thats all that there is to it. Now the layer will behave just as if you drew everything on using a paintbrush, and you will be able to apply filters, and adjust levels all you want.