Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2021 release)

4. Layer Basics

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Organize artwork on layers.

• Create, view, hide, and select layers.

• Rearrange layers to change the stacking order of artwork.

• Apply blending modes to layers.

• Resize and rotate layers.

• Apply a gradient to a layer.

• Apply a filter to a layer.

• Add text and layer effects to a layer.

• Add an adjustment layer.

• Save a copy of the file with the layers flattened.

This lesson will take less than an hour to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book at www.adobepress.com/PhotoshopCIB2021. For more information, ...