Hello fellows,
I have a quick question, it may be my lack of user experience with Krita, but I have two layers, Background layer and Layer1 in overlay mode above that BG layer.
When I hit CTRL+E on Layer1, it merges it with the BG, but it puts Layer1 to Normal mode and than merges.
This is not expected behavior, because the image now looks completely different than it looked before merging.
In PS this worked fine, but in Krita not.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you and have a great day

Honestly I don't know why this happens but it is not correct behavior indeed.
Something like this happens then I trying to merge two layers with different color modes (both not "normal") or if merge with partially transparent layer.

Thank you for your message Radian.
Same problem you describe too Hope that someone will give us an answer how's the real workflow to this problem.

Doesn't happen here -- I've just tested it. Maybe make your .kra file available that shows the behaviour?

Hello boudewijn, and thank you for your reply.
Here is my .kra hope it helps
[url]jerry.latexvogue.com/bug-entrance-test.kra[/url]

I'm trying to merge top layer(Layer 15) with the middle one Aa_large

I may have misunderstood what you're doing so please forgive me if so......

What you're trying to do, as you describe it, with Layer 15 and Aa_large does not match up with the problem you describe in your original post. Layer 15 is already in Normal mode and above Aa_large.

You seem to be using Aa_large as a brightness/gamma modifier to give a visual effect on the corridor, which works well. Those 'organic growths' in Layer 15 are then a Normal layer on top. If you first merge Aa_large with Layer 1 and then merge Layer 15 with the result, that seems to work well.

I can't understand why you'd want to merge Layer 15 with Aa_large. As I said, I may have misunderstood what you're trying to do.

Oh, great. I've tested your workflow with the "If you first merge Aa_large with Layer 1 and then merge Layer 15 with the result, that seems to work well." and it really work just I wanted. Thank you for that.

One other thing that I've noticed. If you use the same file, select layer Aa_large and hit CTRL+G it looks like it changed the layer blending mode. Is it normal behavior ?
Made a video of it
https://youtu.be/IAEijxlgvx4

jerryczech wrote:Oh, great. I've tested your workflow with the "If you first merge Aa_large with Layer 1 and then merge Layer 15 with the result, that seems to work well." and it really work just I wanted. Thank you for that.

One other thing that I've noticed. If you use the same file, select layer Aa_large and hit CTRL+G it looks like it changed the layer blending mode. Is it normal behavior ?
Made a video of it
https://youtu.be/IAEijxlgvx4

It does not change the blending mode, but the blending mode stops to affect the Layer1, as the blending mode is limited to the layers inside the group.
That's actually the primary usage for Layer Groups. To limit the effect of a filter or the interaction of a layer's blending mode with the layers bellow it.
And that's why the image looks different when you merge the two layers at the top. The second layer's blending mode stops affecting the Layer1 because when you merge it with the top one, Krita take only these two being merged in to account for the calculations.