13. Layer Styles
Photoshop comes with several built-in effects: shadows, glows, bevels, textures, and strokes. These effects allow for quick changes to a layer’s appearance. Layer Styles are “live” effects, which is to say that as the content of a layer updates, so does the effect. For example, if you have a bevel and shadow applied to a type layer and you change the text, the effect will be applied to the new characters.
This flower was created from two basic shapes. The beveling, textures, and colorization were done with Layer Styles. Open the file Ch13_Flower_Style. psd from the Chapter 13 folder on the DVD to explore the effects.
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