CHAPTER 2
LAYERS
This chapter alone could have been a book by itself because there’s so much we could cover here. In fact, my great friend Matt Kloskowski did exactly that and wrote a book dedicated to layers a few years back.
Everything in Photoshop involves layers, so it stands to reason that understanding them is crucial. Of course, there is always more to learn, and that’s what I find incredibly exciting about Photoshop; but here my goal is to make sure that you have an understanding of layers, and you can go further from there.
When we make selections, we make them on a layer. We then use the selections to alter the contents of that layer or maybe even copy what’s within the selection onto a new layer, and so it goes on.
When I first started ...
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