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?

[shawtiegotem]

i'm just getting started in this coding and designing stuff... but i recently read that
it's the format you saving in that's not causing the opacity

The missing manual 2nd edition

[i]PNG32 offers one feature that no other format does:
256 levels of transparency (also called alpha transparency),
which means that you can actually see the background of a
web page through a drop shadow on a graphic, or even
make a graphic that has 50 percent opacity (meaning you
can see through it) to create a ghostly translucent effect.
Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 6 for Windows doesn’t
properly display PNG32’s 256 levels of transparency:
Instead of making the transparent areas see-through, IE6
replaces these areas with a hideous blue background.
(There are several JavaScript based techniques—see http://
24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6, for
example—that can help IE 6 display PNG transparency correctly.)
Fortunately, Internet Explorer 7 and 8 can handle
PNG transparency, as can Firefox, Safari, and Opera.[/i]

try and save it as png 32.


i hope i'm helping, lol