{"id":694,"date":"2014-11-11T04:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweetmonia.com\/Sweet-Drawing-Blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2019-02-24T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:41:53","slug":"learn-photoshop-layers-easily-easy-tutorial-for-working-with-layers-and-manipulating-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweetmonia.com\/Sweet-Drawing-Blog\/learn-photoshop-layers-easily-easy-tutorial-for-working-with-layers-and-manipulating-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn photoshop layers easily:- Easy tutorial for working with layers and manipulating them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Learn photoshop layers easily” is part of my Photoshop book “Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures”, which is more revised and covers more concepts than the online tutorials,\u00a0feel free to check out the bookby visiting my Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures Book Page.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Layers are an important part of Photoshop. They are one of two features that makes it\u00a0comfortable\u00a0to create and edit pictures in Photoshop (Besides the selection tool. Which we will cover in the next lesson). In this\u00a0lesson, I will\u00a0teach you a wide range of of layer options. I will focus only on the basics of photoshop layers right now. But I will write another lesson that explain the more advanced options of layers in the future<\/div>\n
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Photoshop layers has\u2019t changed at all since forever in photoshop, so whatever you are using one of the latest versions of Photoshop like CS5, CS6, CC, or even CS7(which doesn’t exist). Or even an old version like Photoshop 6 or 7. All these instructions will apply to your version.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What is the definition of layers?<\/span><\/h2>\n
Think of each layers as an independent\u00a0picture. Photoshop creates the the\u00a0final\u00a0picture you are working on by\u00a0pilling up all the pictures\/layers on each other. For example,\u00a0Take a look at the following sheep picture. Each element in the picture is drawn in a separate layer, the sky is in its own layer, so is the meadow, and the grass, the sheep, and the sun~<\/span><\/div>\n
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The final sheep image is made by putting all the layers one over the other, like that:-<\/span><\/div>\n
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Click on the picture to view it in full size<\/strong>\"Photoshop<\/a><\/div>\n
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Simpler drawing programs like Microsoft Paint don\u2019t\u00a0have layers. So it is safe to say that in Paint, the picture consists of only one\u00a0layer. Which makes it very hard to create many things that are easy to create using Photoshop or any other program that has layers.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

Working with Photoshop layers<\/span><\/h2>\n
Now you understand how layers work. It is time to explain how to work with them. Like how to create, delete and arrange layers, plus a few other things. I will focus on how to do that from the layers panel.\u00a0But all these things can be done from the layer menu in the main menu as well.<\/span><\/div>\n

The layers panel<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The Layers Panel. Is where you work with layer, this is where you will\u00a0create, arrange, and delete \u00a0photoshop layers. There are many other things that can be done with layers here as well.<\/span><\/div>\n
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~If you can\u2019e see the layers panel, choose Window > Layers from the main menu to display the panel.~<\/span><\/div>\n
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To change the layer you are drawing on<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Simply click on the layer in the layers panel, and draw on your canvas, anything you draw by then will be added to the layer you selected<\/p>\n

<\/a>To change the size of the thumbnail of the layers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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