Orton challenge revisited- can someone explain?

I was using the Orton Effect from a recent challenge to process a photo. I then tried to convert it to B&W. I found that only the blurred copy of the merged photo was converted, leaving me with an interesting, partially-converted photo. I saved it and re-imported it to PS3. When I converted it to B&W, the original layer of the image converted.
I pulled out an image with some crisp lines and contrast to experiment with. Here is what I found:
1 Original image

2 Orton-ed image

3 B&W from original

4 Orton- first round of B&W conversion

5 Orton- second round of B&W conversion

For those of you who know the inner workings of PS3 better than me.... please explain why only one layer of a flattened image converted to B&W. Is this true of other images that are composites and layers? Did I just reinvent a wheel?
Thanks in advance for the explanation.
Chris
I pulled out an image with some crisp lines and contrast to experiment with. Here is what I found:
1 Original image

2 Orton-ed image

3 B&W from original

4 Orton- first round of B&W conversion

5 Orton- second round of B&W conversion

For those of you who know the inner workings of PS3 better than me.... please explain why only one layer of a flattened image converted to B&W. Is this true of other images that are composites and layers? Did I just reinvent a wheel?
Thanks in advance for the explanation.
Chris
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Winston
I learned something new. I didn't know that if I didn't flatten the image (even saving as a .jpg) that I could manipulate the layers separately. I thought that saving a combined image as a jpg automatically flattened the image. That's a cool distinction that may be useful to tuck away.
I always learn something from you guys.
Thanks,
Chris
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