This was the senario; I duplicated a layer twice so I had 3. I applied different blend modes and lighting to each of them to get the effect I wanted. Then I decided a trip to the Liguify filter was in order. I did at first merge the 3 layers but they didn't look as I wanted anymore so I un merged them and linked them instead. The liquify filter only affected the one layer I had active. I thought if they were linked it would do all 3 ? Is that what meshes in Liquify are for? I didn't know what to do. I haven't used that filter much before but I think its got great potential. As it was I went back to an earlier snapshot, did my liquify on the origonal layer, then re -did all the duping, blending, lighting etc and it was a real pain. What would have been the sensible way to do this ? Thanking you all in advance for any help.

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