Video: Using Layers in Photoshop

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Learn about using layers in Adobe Photoshop is an important part of the image editing process, get a tutorial in this free video.

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theshoelady Aug 02, 2008
Thanks so much! Your tips have been very helpful!
theshoelady Aug 02, 2008
Thanks so much! Your tips have been very helpful!
unwired Aug 02, 2008
Way too fast presentation for the novice. No zoom on actions. You're better off watching a podcast. Get your slef an iPod and learn more through podcasts. F-
unwired Aug 02, 2008
Way too fast presentation for the novice. No zoom on actions. You're better off watching a podcast. Get your slef an iPod and learn more through podcasts. F-

Video Transcript

My name is Dan Kallenberger. I am an instructor at a technical college teaching Visual Communications and Photoshop as well as other Adobe products. I am going to be showing you Photoshop CS2 today. Okay from here, we’ll go into what are called layers in Photoshop. Let me call up my lily images. I’m -getting all the images right from the Photoshop sample pictures. Again, I talked about it before too but we can duplicate an image by dragging it down to the new layer icon and we come up with a new layer. What we can do is use the marquee tool we can draw a circle around it. We can do edit, copy, edit paste and we get a new layer. This new layer we can then take the background and apply some other adjustment to it and we still have this floating layer. We can add other pieces from it if we wanted to keep highlighting things and do edit copy, edit paste, I can do image adjustment to it and change the brightness contrast on that piece and now I’ve go two layers. I can also take the move tool and move these around. I can copy layers by dragging them to the new icon tool and continue to make more layers in Photoshop. Anytime you add text to something, you’re adding a new layer by doing the check box. I’m just using shortcuts as we’ll talk about sizing at a different time with text tool. So that’s what you can do with layers. You start to build them up; you can turn them on and off with the eyeball tool whether you see them or not so if you like to change your image around you can do that and that is layers.

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Using Layers in Photoshop

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