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Chapter 6: Advanced Photo Editing
Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
Flattening Objects
Flattening objects is a permanent action. If you will no longer need to edit
objects individually, you can flatten objects into a single object. This allows
you to work on the objects together and reduce the number of objects in your
composite. Also, many editing tasks cannot be performed on a multiple selec
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tion. But if you flatten the objects together, they become a single object, so you
will be able to edit them together.
To flatten multiple objects:
1. Make sure that the Stack appears in the workspace.
2. Pressing CTRL, click each thumbnail on the Stack
.
3. On the Edit menu, click Flatten Selected Objects
.
Automatic Flattening
When working with objects that are multiple-selected or grouped, some editing
tasks—such as using advanced selection tools—will automatically flatten the
selected objects into a single object. Digital Image will give you a warning
message whenever two or more objects will need to be flattened to perform an
editing function. When you see a warning message about flattening, you can
click Cancel to prevent the objects from being flattened.
Flattening Objects During Saving
When you save a composite picture in the PNG Plus file format, each object
is preserved separately. When you open the file again, you can edit each
individual object.
However, most file formats for images do not support multiple objects. So if you
save a picture in the JPEG format, for example, all the objects will be flattened
into a single object. Even if you open such a JPEG file in Digital Image, you
will not be able to edit objects individually.