Learn How to Use Photoshop Elements
Lesson 35/58 - Add Layer Style to Image
Learn How to Use Photoshop Elements
Lesson Info
Add Layer Style to Image
And if we wanna get fancy, we can add a drop shadow to this because obviously we want to go for realism here. The drop shadows as we saw yesterday are found under the Styles panel. So I'll click the Styles and from the Styles panel we have sub-collections, so all the different styles are grouped. So what we're looking for if I wanted to add a drop shadow, it would be this one right here - drop shadows - and these are the different presets. Remember we can edit these so I'm just gonna, I usually just reach for this guy down here; this is the soft edge drop shadow. So I'll just double-click that to apply it and you can barely tell that it's been added down there. If I wanna change it, I can click the little gear icon right here, and maybe I wanna increase the distance a smidge, and increase the size to soften that shadow, and maybe reduce the opacity; that's ridiculous. Okay (chuckles), we'll click okay. But the ridiculousness doesn't end there. We can also add all kinds of things. If I ...
can get my mouse to come back - whoop - there is a whole collection of dress-up shapes, there we go, dress-up shapes in here, oh wait, the Crop tool, there we are. So I mean you can see how like we can put glasses on the cat and actually I should show you one more thing that is handy. Let's go back to this blizzard image and I'm gonna undo what we have here right now by pressing Command or Control + Z to undo that, and I'm gonna click this button that's labeled graphics, and this is great because like right now I was thinking oh, we should put glasses on the cat, but I don't have a file handy that would make a good pattern for the glasses. But Elements has this Graphics tab and there's all kinds of graphics in here including... You can sort them by types so here we're looking at backgrounds, but there's frames, there's graphics, there's more shapes, there's text. I'm actually just gonna look at backgrounds right now and so I'm gonna look through and think, what would make a good texture for if I wanted to add glasses to this cat - oo I like this. So I'm gonna double-click this and it just downloads that graphic and fills my whole paper with it. So now I can repeat the process that we did with the tie with the glasses. So let's do cat glasses I guess right? Get it? So we'll put cat glasses, I'm gonna drag these out something about like this. When I let go, they are cropped, we'll go ahead and commit that, and again with the Move tool, I'm gonna click and drag, and drop that onto the cat. And of course we need to resize it and we need to adjust the angle a little bit, so I'll press Command or Control + T again to bring up the Transform box, and then I'll drag in and hover over here, and we can, oh yeah, wow, I'm pretty, I'm pretty excited about that. We can apply that. Now if we wanna copy and paste the layer style that we added over here too, that drop shadow, we can click back over to the Layers panel for a minute, and we see that because we added that drop shadow to this tie layer - layer one is the tie, layer two is the glasses - if I want to copy this layer style, there's two ways to do it. I can right-click on the bar over here of the layer, and I can choose Copy Layer Style, then I would right-click on this layer and then choose Paste, and that would work. Or if I undo that another option is to hold down the Alt or Option key and just drag the little effects icon, and drop it in place up there.
Class Description
We all have hundreds of images on our smartphones and cameras that we never do anything with. Adobe Photoshop Elements is the perfect tool for beginners to use for organizing and editing those images. Khara Plicanic will show you the practical ways to use this software by using step-by-step projects you can follow along with at home. You’ll get hands-on practice at making selections and working with layers, doing simple retouching, and adding text to your images.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5.1
Lessons
1Class Introduction 2Understand How Elements Works 3Importing Images 4Workspace Basics: Organizer 5Workspace Basics: Editor 6Tonal Adjustments in Quick Fix 7Color Adjustments in Quick Fix 8Apply Black & White Filters 9Sharpen an Image 10Fix Red Eye & Pet Eye 11Straighten an Image in Quick Fix 12Explanation of Photoshop Elements 13Basic Cropping in Quick Fix 14Guided Edit Overview 15Guided Edit: Tilt Shift 16Ways to Save Files 17Layers & Simple Selections 18Combine Images with Layers 19How to Use Layer Styles 20Make Selections with Layers 21Make Selection with Lasso 22Compositing with Multiple Images 23Refine Edge Selection on Image 24Use Refine Edge on Images 25Create Gradient in Image 26Gradient Map Differences 27Options for Saving 28Brushes Overview 29Creatively Use Brushes 30How to Change Brush Settings 31Use Shape Tool with Brushes 32Work with Multiple Shape Layers 33Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool 34How to Load Brushes into Elements 35Add Layer Style to Image 36Clip Image to Shape & Use as Template 37Retouching Overview 38How to Use Content-Aware Fill 39How to Use Content-Aware Move Tool 40Spot Healing Brush on Blemishes 41Remove Frown Lines with Retouching 42How to Remove Tattoos 43Remove a Gap in Teeth 44How to Whiten Teeth 45Adjust Facial Features 46Working with Type Overview 47Match Type for Image 48How to Manipulate Type Layers 49Create Postcard with Type 50Add Type on a Path 51Organizing Images in Elements 52Add Keywords to Images 53Smart Tags Overview 54Using Albums in Elements 55Places Workspace Overview 56Use Event Tags on Images 57Timeline for Image Organization 58Recommended WorkflowReviews