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Destructive editing: Painting, adjustments, erasing, and rasterizing

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Destructive editing: Painting, adjustments, erasing, and rasterizing

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Although we talked a great deal about the non-destructive editing in the exam they might also ask you about the opposite of how can you do destructive editing or what would be considered destructive editing methods. So I'm going to just quickly go through these even though they might sound obvious and self-explanatory I wanted to show you again. So one of the most destructive changes you can do is to merge all your layers together which is also called flattening your document. So if I right click on the layers panel anywhere I can just choose flatten image and that basically bakes or merges all the layers together you won't have access to anything anymore. The main advantage of this is that you will reduce the file size drastically because now you have only a single layer compared to all the additional layers that we had there but I'm just going to undo this so this is definitely a destructive change. Another thing would be to rasterize a layer so something that's already set up as a…

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