Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book

Chapter 6. Layer Basics

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Adobe Photoshop lets you isolate different parts of an image on layers. Each layer can then be edited as discrete artwork, allowing tremendous flexibility in composing and revising an image.

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 in the image.

• Apply blending modes to layers.

• Link layers to work on them simultaneously.

• Apply a gradient to a layer.

• Add text and layer effects to a layer.

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

This lesson will take about an hour to ...