Dear friends, please help with the situation described on the pic attached . Thank You in advance, digitally Yours. -Anthony. P. S. Of course I can use other technique to avoid "layer style" (using new layers & masks) but it's tedious and I'd like to understand if I made any mistakes to avoid in future.

how did you flatten it? cntrl+E for each layer? cuz that always gives me problems with layer modes with me... try cntrl+shift+e wich flattens all visible layers at once... and converting in diffrentformats doens't help anyway... if you dan't have the good result in photoshop, you will never get it... hope this helps grd

I tried all ways (the ones You advised wouldn't work neither) - even flattening with a new empty layer. I don't remember for sure but some older Photoshop (5.5 or 6.0 - slipped out of my memory) didn't have any bootlenecks in this field. And I remember there was a third party plug-in for beveling that could add even surface effects (plastic/chrome/etc) and the bevel profile options were very wide - one could draw it very precisely. Can someone remind me what the plug-in name is? Thank You in advance, digitally Yours, -Anthony

i'm not shure but i think you mean eye candy, from aliens skin (http://www.alienskin.com/ec4k/ec4000_filters.html) you could try the "bevel boss" filter or the "chrome" filter or maybe even the "glass" filter, but i think the bevel boss is waht you're looking for... grd

Thank You, Stef, for helpful info and advice! Digitally Yours, -Anthony.