Photoshop Layer Styles Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so this little tutorial we're going to do here, we're going to mess with the effects in Photoshop, and you can do--you can use the effects in Photoshop with your photograph or with text, and we're just going to work with the little sample that I did earlier. Effects tool in your layers palette is way down over here, as you can see my cursor, and it's actually called a layer style. But the word--the letters "FX" is there, and that's what I call it. So all you do is click, and you can hit blending options or you can just click on one of these. If you want to hit blending options, it's going to bring up this dialog box here. Now with the blending options, you can do whatever you want. You want to add a drop shadow, all you do is click. If you want to add inner shadow, all you do is click. Outer glow--and it's not going to give you a glow on this one, but you would have to mess around with the options. But bevel and emboss, you can put texture in the inside of your text, you can do satin, color overlay, a gradient, pattern overlay, or you can even add a stroke. There is presets, like say for instance a stroke, they always do it in red for some reason. I don't know why Photoshop does this, but you have to change the color yourself. As far as drop sh--you know, we can work with drop shadow on this one, which is kind of neat. And the way you mess with the actual effects that you're using, you have to click on the box. As you can see, the box turns blue as soon as you click it, and that means you can mess with the options. So for instance here, you can mess with the blend mode, as far as drop shadow goes, you can mess with the opacity--you can bring it down, bring it up. You can mess with the angle of your drop shadow, or you can use globe light. Globe light is kind of a cool thing, because you can just go onto your text, click and you can move your drop shadow as I'm doing right here, which is kind of a neat deal. I actually use the globe light all the time. You can mess with your distance, you can mess with your spread, you can mess with the size of your drop shadow. And I usually like it a little blurry, just like that. You can add noise, as you can see, and sometimes that's kind of a cool thing to do, add a little noise to your drop shadow. And as you can see over here, you can actually change the color of your drop shadow, that's kind of a cool thing that Photoshop has done, and that's in that little box right there. It's always going to be black, so sometimes you're going to miss that, so you need to kind of just go over everything, and as you can see every time I go over something, Photoshop puts a little box there--use current setting for globe light source, or set color of shadow. So it's kind of a cool thing, and if you want to add it as a style, you can actually click new style and you can save that, and you can save the type of drop shadow that you put on there and use it over and over again, which is a real neat deal that Photoshop does. If you want to do like a bevel emboss you can do that as well, all you have to do is click on the box, and you can set it outer bevel or you can set it pillow emboss, or you can do all sorts of cool things in this little area of Photoshop. And a lot of people don't ever even click down here, because they just don't notice the FX button, but as you can see, it really gives us a huge amount of options to work with. It's really a neat deal, I--I'll use this almost all the time, on almost all my pictures and text and everything. As you can see there's a globe light as well. You can move your--you can actually move your bevel or emboss around inside of your picture, and it's really a cool deal how they have this set up. It's--it's really cool. You could change the opacity, and all these have their own different options. As you can see, if I click like gradient overlay, it's going to give you an option of the type of gradient you want, if you want like a gr--a red to green, or a orange to yellow, or whatever it is that you like. You can do a million different things in Photoshop, and it's really, really cool. If you want to get rid of it, all you do is un-check, like I'm doing here. Un-check, un-check, and we've got our original sample there. So let's go ahead and keep those two, hit okay, and down over here in your layers palette, as you can see, it actually brought more options down on the bottom of your sample layer, and you can click off--just to see what it does. As you can see here, I'm clicking the eyeball, and it's taking off and taking on what I've done, so it's really a cool deal. It's really, really neat. And that is it for the effects--basic effects. Thanks."