Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature, Second Edition

Chapter One. Layer Basics

This first chapter is named Layer Basics, because it’s where you should go if you’re brand new to layers. While I start with the basics, we’ll move pretty quickly and cover some very cool things you should know. So even if you think you’re somewhat familiar with layers, you’ll still want to read through it. That said, if you’re pretty familiar with the concept of layers and why they’re important, you can skip the first tutorial and jump right to the second one—that’s where things really start to take off. As for the third tutorial...well, let’s just say it gets flat-out crazy. You’ll be amazed at all the things that ...