Saving in Blending Modes other than Normal, photoshop help Options

[Mikeplyts]

Hm, I haven't really had to deal with this problem before but it's starting to become slightly annoying now. I'm working on a little project and I have a few parts of the design that I want to have the effect of the Overlay layer blending mode. However, if I try to merge it with a blank layer, it just reverts it to the Normal layer blending mode. I then tried to make the blank new layer the same blending mode (Overlay) and tried merging that, but nothing. I went as far as making a new file, putting the basic image in there, applying the same layer styles, and just saving it but that didn't work either. I wouldn't really have this problem if the blending mode were Soft Light since a low opacity Normal can kind of reach the same effect, but in this case, I'm stuck.

Any ideas?

[lovescream]

I'm actually slightly confused. Can't you just not merge any layers & keep it at that?

Unless you mean you want an image to be in overlay effect over another image as you put it on the website? O_O;;