Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

Adding Layer Styles

You can apply any of Photoshop’s layer styles to a video layer by clicking the fx at the bottom of the Layers panel or by choosing Layer→Layer Style. For example, if you’ve placed a small video clip on top of larger one (for a picture-in-picture effect), you can make the small clip appear to float above the larger one by adding a drop shadow to the smaller clip’s layer. Another useful layer style is Inner Shadow, which can create the darkened-edge vignette effect shown in Figure 20-18.

Figure 20-18. To add a darkened-edge vignette effect to a video clip, apply an Inner Shadow layer style. (Any layer styles you add apply to the whole the video clip—you can’t adjust their duration.) As you can see here, a well-placed layer style can make quite a difference!