Drop shadow changes when layers merged

When saving a Photoshop file as a pdf or jpeg, my layers get flattened and the drop shadows I have around some of my elements become much lighter. Is there something I should be doing to my layers containing drop shadows to keep them in tact? Also, when converting text to shapes my font colors sometimes change completely. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Is there something I should be doing to my layers containing drop shadows to keep them in tact?
Manually merge them with an empty layer to enforce all pixels to be "baked" with respect to current layer blending options. Also consider setting your group blending options differently. The changes you are seeing may be due to layers blending together outside their group when flattening the files, but not in the original state...
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Go to Solution.

Donovan B wrote:
Hi Jim,
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> I checked this behavior back to LabVIEW 7.1 and it
is consistent throughout that controls and indicators are not
selected. (Consequently, so is the fact that when decorations are
present they don’t maintain the relative position).
This just means that not many people use this feature. However, now that VIPM Professional makes it so easy to edit the palettes, I'm sure that others will start complaining that this doesn't work as they expect.
> I am not sure if this would be better suited as a CAR or product suggestion
since it has been this way that long, but it does not appear to be
related to the fact that decorations are present in the Merge VI.
Just look up the functional specifications for this feature and see if all objects are supposed to be selected.
But seriously, is there a reason that only the FP decorations are selected? Surely this would be documented somewhere, if there was a good reason for this current (IMO, buggy) behavior.
> It
does seem strange that the decorations are selected though. Looks like
the best way to work around this is to drop the VI from the Controls
palette. Hopefully, it’s not too much of a hassle.
That's not a reasonably work-around, IMO. It doesn't make sense to drop Block Diagram components onto the Front Panel. For example, this bug affects the JKI State Machine. It doesn't make sense to drop a State Machine onto the Front Panel.
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