Showing Your Clients Different Versions of Your Work

I think Adobe had graphic designers in mind when they added the Layer Comps feature to Photoshop, but my guess is photographers will use it as much, if not more, because it’s a great tool for showing off things like different wedding photo layouts, sports template layouts, and photos with different amounts of retouching or effects applied. Here’s how to use new Layer Comps feature in your work.

Step One.
While you’re working, once you have a layout that you think is fairly decent, go under the Window menu and choose Layer Comps to bring up the Layer Comps floating palette (shown here). Then, click on the New Layer Comp button at the bottom of the Layer Comps palette (which looks surprisingly ...

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