I am currently looking for a way to take what the final product looks like on the screen after doing layer operations on the layers (color dodge specifically) and save that as a new layer. I have found that photoshop basically take a snapshot of what the image on the screen looks like and snapshots it to a new layer called "merged". This link explains the problem I have and what photoshops solution is (http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/how-to-merge-layer-blend-modes-in-photoshop/). I believe I should be able to do this with the IEBitmap.RenderToTIEBitmapex functionality but havent had much success. This is what I currently have:
imgview2r and imgview2g are imageenview with an images loaded
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tempview and tempview2 are imageenviews with no images that will be rendered using the color dodge layer operation. tempview2 will hold the merged image.
img2layerd is an image with multiple layers that I would like to add the final product (tempview2's rendered images) to as a layer
tempview.ieBitmap.Assign(imgview2r.IEBitmap);
// showmessage('assigned red');
tempview2.ieBitmap.Assign(imgview2g.IEbitmap);
// showmessage('assigned green');
tempview2.IEBitmap.RenderToTIEBitmapex(tempview.ieBITMAP, tempview.ieBitmap.width,0,tempview2.ieBitmap.width,tempview2.ieBitmap.height,
0,0,tempview2.IEBitmap.width,tempview2.IEBitmap.width,FALSE, 255, rfnone,
ielInverseColorDodge, 1.0);
// showmessage('rendered');
ilayer := img2layerd.LayersAdd;
img2layerd.Layers[ilayer].Bitmap.Assign(tempview.bitmap);
img2layerd.Layers[2].Name := 'MERGED BLEND';
I feel like I am overlooking something simple with this because the merged image just look like the image that is being rendered into the other- as if it is ignoring the InverseColorDodge operation during the rendertotiebitmap. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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