Ps chap10 lesson01

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Modifying the Layer

Lesson 1

Chapter 10

Working with Layers

Layers are images that are stacked together with each layer containing different kinds of elements of the image

Layer are important for creating a new look in images or creating a background.

Working with Layers

Layers can be adjusted individually or by group depending on your project.

You can hide a layer by clicking the Eye button on the left side.

Layers Menu- contains various commands that you can apply to create, modify, arrange and edit your layers.

Layers Panel-contains the layers name which allows you to modify each layer.

Merging Layers- combines images of two or more separate layers.

Flattening Layers- combine all layers in the image into one layer.

Adjustment Layer- you can make to one layer instead of doing it to the whole image.

Linking Layers- create a single moving layer and two separate. It keeps also a combination of layers aligned to each other without merging or flattening layers.

Topics of the Lesson

Opacity and Fill The Blending Modes

Opacity the degree by which an active layer

obscures or reveals the layer beneath it

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after

Adjusting the Opacity

Step 1

Click on the layer

Adjusting the Opacity

Step 2

Specify the value of opacity

Fill

adjusts the opacity of the layer without changing the opacity of the applied layer effects

before

after

Adjusting the Fill

Step 1

Click on the layer

Adjusting the Fill

Step 2

Specify the value of fill

Blending Modes

a Photoshop feature that determines how the pixels of a layer will interact or blend with the pixels of the underlying layers

Blending Modes

base color– the color beneath the active

layer

blend– the color of the active layer

composite– the combination of base and

bled colors

Blending Modes

blend colorbase

color

Blending Modes

composite

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