I personally have wished for this very idea several times and think the list
guide should submit it to Adobe for their next revision.

Sharon Jones
Web Site Designer
Harris Corporation
email:  sjones05(at)harris.com

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Noone Special [SMTP:pfarabee(at)indy.net]
	Sent:	Monday, March 08, 1999 9:56 AM
	To:	hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
	Subject:	Re: Merging layers re-explain

	On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Chris Hawkins wrote:

	> It was more a programming, theoretical question, that is, why would
there
	> not be an option for the layers remaining there after merging, if you
	> wanted, for instance to alter a layer later that you merged...instead
of
	> going through steps to duplicate, save as in a new file, etc.  I
personally
	> find it just fine, but wondered what others thought about it as a
	> programmed option in the program...wouldn't it be helpful at times, or
not?

	I think what he is asking is why there isn't a way to do this:

	1) create a layer, named "vase"
	2) create a layer, named "flower1"
	3) create a layer, named "flower2"
	4) continue creating flowers, and merging/copying them into different
	   assortments to come up with 20 different flower arrangment layers.
	5) merge each flower arrangement with a copy of the vase and save each
	   layer in a separate file..
	6) Whoops... customer wants a blue vase with purple highlights instead
of
	   a red vase with green highlights..
	7) Simply make the changes to the "vase" layer, and have all other
layers
	   that have been 'merged' with that layer automatically update.

	I think it is a good idea that would be a very useful feature.. but
	"merge" wouldn't be a good term.. perhaps "include" would be more
	appropriate.. there could even be "include" transformations, that take
an
	existing layer, and transform it through rotations, scaling, etc, so as
to
	automatically update any number of layers that have any number of source
	layers, and only have to change those source layers.  I think if Adobe
	implemented such a feature, many of us would probably find it a "how did
I
	ever manage without this?"  :)

	Perhaps someone should contact Adobe with the idea? :)

	Pat

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