Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

Figure 5-27.

Figure 5-28.

10.

Turn off the Colors layer. Now that I see the composition with

the stars and the text and the glassware, the colors look garish.

We could delete the Colors layer, but you never know when you

might be in the mood for garish after all. Instead, simply turn

off the visibility of the Colors layer by clicking its

. Now you

have the nicely monochromatic look of Figure 5-28, plus the

ability to easily change your mind down the line.

11.

Drag a file into the composition. Another long re-

quested feature from veteran Photoshop users has

finally arrived in Photoshop CS5: the ability to drag

files from the desktop, a Finder window on the Mac, or Win-

dows Explorer on the PC. To see how the feature works, open

the folder that contains the lesson files for this book. Navigate

to the Lesson 05 folder, and locate Light & splash.psd.

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Lesson 5: Working with Layers

Figure 5-29.

Figure 5-30.

Drag that file directly from the desktop, the Finder, or the Ex-

plorer window to your Photoshop composition. Magically, the

new file becomes its own layer in your Photoshop document.

The layer arrives with handles for easy repositioning, but it’s

centered exactly where we want it, so press Enter (Return) to ac-

cept the size and position. You can see the results in Figure 5-29.

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