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Applying layer effects and styles - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2022 Essential Training
Applying layer effects and styles
- Photoshop has a number of built-in, non-destructive effects like drop shadows and overlays, glows and strokes, which can be applied to a variety of different kinds of layers. We're going to start by adding a drop shadow to image one. I can choose layer and then layer style, and then select any of the effects from the list. Or we can use the effects icon at the bottom of the layers panel, and then choose our layer effect. In order to reset this, I'll use the reset to default. So on the left, we have all of the different types of layer effects. As soon as we select one of those, we can see the options on the right. So we can change the blend mode, we can click in the color swatch to change the color. We can also change the opacity of the drop shadow as well as the angle and the distance. We can also change the size. But I think it's easier to change the angle as well as the distance by just dragging in the…
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Understanding file formats7m 47s
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Mastering bit depth and color mode8m 25s
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Choosing a color space6m 35s
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Making sense of document size7m 12s
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Using Image Size to change document dimensions5m 6s
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Flexible editing using the History panel3m 52s
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Saving and exporting documents6m 43s
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A tour of the Camera Raw interface6m 50s
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Removing distortions and cropping photos6m 13s
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Working with profiles and presets7m 50s
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Enhancing contrast, color, and tone9m 49s
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Making adjustments to a portion of an image11m 14s
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Converting to black and white and adding color toning4m 58s
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Saving and opening files into Photoshop5m 40s
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Using the Marquee and Lasso tools10m 51s
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Using Object Selection and the Quick Selection tools6m 6s
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Using Select Subject and Color Range3m 47s
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Selecting soft edge objects with Select and Mask3m 56s
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Removing a halo using Select and Mask3m 54s
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Selecting and replacing skies4m 38s
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Introducing adjustment layers2m 58s
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Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves7m 38s
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Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, and Color Balance5m 29s
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Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps4m 26s
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Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers3m 36s
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Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform5m 21s
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Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw3m 31s
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Warping images5m 45s
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Using Liquify to reshape an image6m 26s
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Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective4m 52s
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Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one3m 7s
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Filter essentials1m 50s
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Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters4m 20s
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Sharpening images7m 46s
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Creative blurring effects11m 7s
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AI-assisted (neural) filters6m 10s
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Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery3m 51s
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Applying Camera Raw as a filter1m 46s
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