The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

35. LAYER STYLES

YOU PROBABLY WON’T work with Layer Styles in a photography project very often, but you may inadvertently approach the Layer Style tool, so it’s a good idea to know what it is and how you can use it. Figure 35.1 shows a picture that we worked with in the previous lesson, in which we made a selection of the ceramic and copied it into its own layer.

If you double-click on the name Layer 1, you can rename the layer; however, if you double-click to the right of the words Layer 1, a Layer Style panel will open (Figure 35.2). The Layer Style panel has a set of canned effects that you can add to elements on the selected layer. In the ...