Working with Layers - My Photoshop Elements 13 - page 297

2. Click the Expert mode.
3. Click to select the layer that you want to merge down a layer.
4. Choose Layer, Merge Down from the menu bar.
5. If you want to Merge only the visible layers, not the ones that you have hidden,
choose Layer, Merge Visible.
6. If you want to flatten all layers into one, choose Layer, Flatten Image.
Creating Fill Layers
Fill layers are special layers for solid colors, gradients, and patterns. The opacity and
Blending modes can be applied to a Fill layer, but this type of a layer does not affect images
on any of the layers below them in the stacking order. When you create Fill layers, they are
automatically named based on their type. For example, if you create a solid color Fill layer,
it is named Fill Color 1. If you create a second Fill layer, it will be called Fill Color 2. Fill
layers are often used as background layers.
1. Open a photo or new document in the Photo Editor.