Lesson Info

Creating a New Layer

So now let's learn a bit more about layers. So far, we've made layers by either copying and pasting a picture between documents we could have dragged and dropped them between documents using the move tool. Or we dragged them from bridge and we dragged him from bridge. Did a little bit extra in that it automatically transformed to make it fit within the document. Well, now let's do other things with our layers. Weaken manually. Create a brand new empty layer in my layers panel. If you look at the bottom, there's a bunch of icons. If I click the icon, that's to the left of the trash can. That's the new layer icon, and they recently changed the appearance of that icon. Ah, but that will create a new layer. It usually creates that new empty layer directly above the layer that was active. If no layers were active, then it'll be at the top of your document. So I could at this point used my paint brush tool and paints on layer so that top layer is active. And so if I do some painting like thi...

s once I released the mouse button. If you watch my layers panel. You'll see that that's where the pain went because you're usually Onley gonna change which layer over layer is currently active. So let's figure out which functions can we use when a single layer is active in Which can we use when more than one layer is active? When you have a single layer active? Usually any painting that you do to it will affect only that one layer, and you can also come up here and apply filters. Let's say I want a blurry line. I'll apply the blur filter called Ghazi Ambler. The other thing that I could do to a single layer is adjusted if I choose image adjustments. Human saturation. The choice, called Hugh, will change the basic color of that layer so I can change the color of the paint that I have there. But then, if I select more than one layer at a time by just clicking on multiple layers that air here, well, I hold down either shift or command. Then I'll be limited what I could do if I come up here and grab the paint brush tool and I attempt to paint, you'll see that my mouse looks like a no symbol, and if I attempt to paint, it will simply tell me I can't do it. And that's because it doesn't know which layer it should put that paint on. If I come up here to the filter menu, you'll find all the filters are great out, except for one choice called Convert for Smart Filters will cover that when we have a class on advanced layers, but you'd have to do that first before being able to apply a filter. If I go to the image menu and I choose adjustments, it's simply great out because it wouldn't know which layers or which layer it should work on. Those are all things that can only work on a single later at a time, and therefore I'd have to click to get only a single layer active then in your layers panel. It's a Ziff. You're standing at the top of the layers panel looking down in. This is no different than a stack of paper on your desk or a stack of photographs that you might have on your desk if I had sheets of paper and I stacked them. The top most sheet of paper would obscure my view of the sheet that's directly below it, because the overlap in the same is true for layers. So in my layers panel, if I repositioned my layers using the move tool, this layer is on top of all the others Onley because in my layers panel, it's near the top. If I end up clicking on the name of that layer and dragging it down in putting it way down here now you can see it in between those other layers. But it's underneath so you can control the stacking order the layers very easily by simply dragging up and down within the layers panel. I want that on top again and just need to drag it up near the top. So that's quickly little green line. If I want it to be behind those images, I need to click on the layer that contains it, drag it down far enough that it's gonna be behind all the layers so was interested in. Maybe I wanted that as some sort of background element, or if I don't like it at all, I can drag it to the trash king. Another way for creating layers would be to use certain tools. That shape tool could be used for drawing circles, rectangles and other Chris bed shapes. Or we could use the text tool in this case. I'm going to use the text tool click within my document and after typing in some text. If I want to change the settings for the text, I need to select the tax, and I usually do that by typing Command a, which I did automatically without thinking. Then up here in the options bar at the top of my screen, we have the size. I don't usually deal with number necessarily. There is an icon right here that indicates size, and if you just click on it in drag, you'll be automatically changing the number that's next to it. So I'll just click on that icon. That's letter T and drag to the right and tell my text is the size I might want. Then I can come up here on the left side of my options bar and decide what typeface I'd like to use, maybe fine tune my size again if I could spell forgotten? A. If I need to select all this, a type command a then I can change the size, and the reason why you have to select all is because otherwise you could change thesis eyes of individual letters that are here. Then there's a little check box up here that means I'm done with my settings and I'll click that so we have our text.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Introduction To Adobe Photoshop 2020
2. Bridge vs. Lightroom
3. Tour of Photoshop Interface
4. Overview of Bridge Workspace
5. Overview of Lightroom Workspace
6. Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
7. How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
8. Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
9. Developing Raw Images
10. Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
11. How to Save Images
12. Using the Transform Tool
13. Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
14. Selection Tools
15. Combining Selection Tools
16. Using Automated Selection Tools
17. Quick Mask Mode
18. Select Menu Essentials
19. Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
20. Align Active Layers
21. Creating a New Layer
22. Creating a Clipping Mask
23. Using Effects on Layers
24. Using Adjustment Layers
25. Using the Shape Tool
26. Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
27. Masking Multiple Images Together
28. Using Layer Masks to Remove People
29. Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
30. Adding Texture to Images
31. Layering to Create Realistic Depth
32. Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
33. Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
34. Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
35. Understanding Curves
36. Editing an Image Using Curves
37. Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
38. Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
39. Editing with Blending Modes
40. Color Theory
41. Curves for Color
42. Hue and Saturation Adjustments
43. Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
44. Match Colors Using Numbers
45. Adjusting Skin Tones
46. Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
47. Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
48. Retouching with the Clone Stamp
49. Retouching with the Healing Brush
50. Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
51. Extending an Edge with Content Aware
52. Clone Between Documents
53. Crop Tool
54. Frame Tool
55. Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
56. Paint Brush Tools
57. History Brush Tool
58. Eraser and Gradient Tools
59. Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
60. Blur and Shape Tools
61. Dissolve Mode
62. Multiply Mode
63. Screen Mode
64. Hard Light Mode
65. Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
66. Smart Filters
67. High Pass Filter
68. Blur Filter
69. Filter Gallery
70. Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
71. Combing Filters and Features
72. Select and Mask
73. Manually Select and Mask
74. Creating a Clean Background
75. Changing the Background
76. Smart Object Overview
77. Nested Smart Objects
78. Scale and Warp Smart Objects
79. Replace Contents
80. Raw Smart Objects
81. Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
82. Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
83. Panoramas
84. HDR
85. Focus Stacking
86. Time-lapse
87. Light Painting Composite
88. Remove Moire Patterns
89. Remove Similar Objects At Once
90. Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
91. Replace a Repeating Pattern
92. Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
93. Remove an Object with a Complex Background
94. Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
95. Warping
96. Liquify
97. Puppet Warp
98. Displacement Map
99. Polar Coordinates
100. Organize Your Layers
101. Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
102. Layer Style: Knockout Deep
103. Blending Options: Blend if
104. Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
105. Layer Comps
106. Black-Only Shadows
107. Create a Content Aware Fill Action
108. Create a Desaturate Edges Action
109. Create an Antique Color Action
110. Create a Contour Map Action
111. Faux Sunset Action
112. Photo Credit Action
113. Create Sharable Actions
114. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
115. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
116. Image Compatibility with Lightroom
117. Scratch Disk Is Full
118. Preview Thumbnail