Chapter 3. Layers Primer

Layers Primer
 

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

 
 --Paul Ehrlich

The Layers palette is like the mother everybody wanted as a teenager. Instead of yelling at you to clean your room, she patiently keeps track of all your stuff and she doesn’t care if you are neat and tidy or an all-out slob. She is command central for everything you will ever do in Photoshop, and the better you get to know her, the more you will be rewarded for your efforts. Whether you have just a few elements in your document, or hundreds, the Layers palette keeps everything organized and gives you an amazing number of options for how to make the elements ...

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