Chapter 3. Layers and Photoshop Muscle
ELDERS (2008)
Covered in this Chapter
• Nondestructive layer properties
• Layer organization, groups, and links
• Masking techniques and strategies
• Smart Object layers and layer styles
Photoshop is all about layers. Blending modes, style effects, clipping, masking, grouping, copying, adjusting—the list of the creative potential layers offer you just keeps going. Perhaps the most powerful ability of layers is the layer mask itself and the clever ways you can use masks. The better you understand how layers behave and combine in a composite, the more effectively you can ...
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