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Layer Fundamentals
Selection Tools Basics
Layer Mask Basics
Blend Modes
History Palette
Adjustment Layers Basics
Shadows and Highlights
Layer Style Basics
Cloning and Color Matching
Smart Filters
Resizing Images
Fixing Crooked Pictures
Channel Basics

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Layer Style Basics

Photoshop provides a variety of effects such as shadows, glows, and bevels that change the appearance of a layer’s contents. This lesson explores several of these Layer Styles. In this lesson, students will explore the Layer Style Presets along with Bevel and Emboss, Strokes, Outer Glows and Drop Shadow Layer Styles. Students will also explore the Fill Opacity control in the Layers Palette and understand how it applies to Layer Styles.

 

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