Chapter 4
Working with Layers
Chapter Goals
When Layers were introduced in Photoshop 3.0, it was revolutionary. Today it’s hard to believe a program like Photoshop Elements or most of the Adobe Creative Cloud applications could exist without support for Layers. Layers are vital to all your photo editing needs. In this chapter, you learn to do the following:
Create layers
Use commands in the Layers panel and the Layers menu
Create Adjustment Layers
Work with Smart Objects
Work with all the blend modes
Move layers around the layer stack
Copy, delete, and modify layers
Photoshop was introduced in early 1990. The first version of Photoshop ...
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