How Do I Do That In Photoshop?, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6 How to Work with Layers

This Is Where It Gets Fun

I remember the first time I ever saw Adobe demo Photoshop’s layers feature. They were introduced in Photoshop 3.0, and Adobe did a live sneak peek of layers at a seminar in Orlando, Florida, and the whole crowd was blown away. Blown away! Up until that point, there were no layers and many Photoshop effects, which today we take for granted, like drop shadows for example, had to be created through a series of channels moves, by offsetting channels and carving one channel out from another. It was the technological equivalent of using a butter churn. It was painful. You got blisters ...