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• Photoshop Layers (UIUC.edu)
  Layers are like sheets of acetate, transparent except where there is artwork on them. You can view all of them at once, or selectively "hide" individual layers to view only one or a few. They allow a high degree of control over your artwork, as each layer can be moved, reordered and edited independently. All layers have opacity sliders, so that you can allow the background or underlying layers to show through.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• Photoshop How-To: Recreating Polaroid Image Transfers
  this site tells you how to use the layers feature in phtoshop to recreate some complex photography effects, using just layers, showing you the different aspects of just a few of the properties that can be altered and controlled by adjusting objects contained in new layers. Each layer in turn can interact with each other layer, altering the overall image, allowing you to create hundreds of variations with just a few minor options beign switched
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• Photoshop Tutorials (Mike's Sketchpad)
  This seems to be a privately owned site with tutorials for many other graphics applications besides photoshop, such as Quark, Illustrator, Corel, etc. It has a very informative tutorial on "Layer Basics", which is divided into eight sections. This tutorial primarily focuses on navigation of the layers pallette, and teaching the user its basic functions. A particularly good portion of the tutorial deals with blend modes and how they can be used to acheive the desired effect. Other points covered are merging layers, copying and renaming, and defining the concept of opacity.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• Photoshop How-to: Art History Brush
  Rhoda Grossman and Sherry London show you how to use Photoshop's Art History Brush as a combination of the paintbrush, the smudge tool, and the watercolor filter. Use it to add color and texture to images. This piece was published in February of 2003, and adapted from "Photoshop 7 Magic" (New Riders Publishing). The article is located at creativepro.com, this link is the "print friendly" link.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0: Harness the Power of Layers
  This website allows the viewer to know what a layer is and how to use all its purposes. Photoshop is made up of layers and how they connect with each other. Layers can be connected by links. Multiple layers can be flattened into one layer. Having layers allows people to place objects on top of each other without moving or messing up the entire picture or project. This website was very helpful having a help column on how to use layers located on the left hand side of the site. This helps understand all aspects of using layers.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• [DEAD] Working with Photoshop Layers (ttu.edu)
  This site not only has instructions on how to use the layering tools correctly, but it also explains conceptually how all the layering tools work. It includes things like layer masks and clipping paths, along with information about special effects and filtering. The site also includes keyboard shortcuts for many of the commands.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• [DEAD] Photoshop Layers: some basics
  Layers allow you to do things such as blending, moving, and color correcting, without affecting the base image. The background layer is the base and cannot be moved or made transparent. You can make layers invisible or opaque and you can put locks on layers so they will not be changed. Double clicking on the layer brings up the layer style box which allows you do control things like style and blending. there are also buttons which allow you to create or delete your layers.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• [DEAD] www.uwec.edu/help/Photoshop7/layers.htm Photoshop 7: Working with Layers
  Layers operate independently of one another, allowing the user to change a layer without affecting other layers or the background of the image. When layered, the contents of each layer combine to create a completed image. Each layer in Photoshop will be automatically named based on its general contents and assigned a default opacity of 100%. The user can change the default name and opacity at anytime. The user can create a layer by using one of four methods; Menu Option, Layers Palette Menu Option, Layers Palette Option, or Keyboard and Layers Palette Option. Should the user no longer need a layer, or want to replace it, the user can delete it. However, if the user deletes a layer in error, it can be retrieved by using the Undo or Step Backward function. The user can delete a layer by using one of six options; Menu Option, Layers Palette Menu Option, Layers Palette Option, Right Click Option, Drag and Drop Option, or Keyboard and Layers Palette Option.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• [DEAD] www.itts.ttu.edu/documentation/ps/ps03.html Working with Photoshop Layers (2)
  Layers in Photoshop are like a stack of transparencies. Images can be placed or drawn on different layers, they remain separate until told. You can edit each layer separately. When put together as on the layers can blend images together or cover images entirely to the users intent. It's also possible to isolate a certain part of a layer to work on it.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• [DEAD] www.uwec.edu/help/Photoshop7/ Adobe Photoshop 7: Layer Basics (uwec.edu)
  Adobe Photoshop 7: Layer Basics is just one of many tutorial websites maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. On this specific page, the website's author, Jeri Weiser, starts out by providing an explanation that defines the purpose of layers when using Adobe Photoshop 7. The author compares layers to "separate films, much like transparency sheets," which when combined creates a visual image as a whole. The site also provides in-depth diagrams and instructions on how to manipulate the various functions of layers, and also has helpful links for the more complex layer functions. The only criticism the authors failure to include keyboard shortcuts in the instructions.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• [DEAD] www.albany.edu/~so9440/isp523/shapes.html Shapes in Photoshop 7.0 (Albany.edu)
  I found out from this website and others, that when working with layers they allow you to stack images on top of images but it does not cover the image from before completely. So you are able to save what you want and get rid of things you do not want. The Layers palette lets you create new layers, reposition layers, delete or merge old layers as well as even apply special effects to layers. These are most of the options that i found out about dealing with layers.
  Posted on 1/26/2004
• [DEAD] www.waycross.edu/faculty/tstrick/foxprints/photoshop_instructions2.htm - Photoshop Elements 2 Instructions (Layers)
  This file is a great source for How-to techniques involving layers. There are resourcful pictures and numbers outlines telling you how to switch between layers. The background is your main canvas, then comes layer 1 and layer two. You can jump from layer to layer, moving just the images in that layer or moving two layers at the same time. Ifs a very useful source that will answer many questiond concerning Photoshop
  Posted on 1/26/2004

 

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