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Lesson 14:   14-A   14-B   14-C   14-D

Lesson 14: Using Photoshop's Layer Effects and Styles

Objectives:
​Section 14-A (Monday)
  • What are layer effects?
  • Drop Shadow, outer glow, pattern overlay, color overlay
Section 14-B (Tuesday)
  • Satin, inner glow, inner shadow, stroke, bevel & emboss
  • Using the blending effects dialog - transparent text
Section 14-C (Wednesday)
  • Scaling layer effects
  • Introduction to styles
Section 14-D (Thursday)
  • How to create, save, or install a style
  • How to create, save, or install a pattern, gradient, color swatches, etc

For detailed help, please read through "Photoshop Help: Layer Effects and Styles."

Greg on DeviantArt has created hundreds of styles - go have a look!  They're free to download and use.
Picture
Navajo Jewelry - a Photoshop style created by Nathan Smith. Click on the image to download this style and use it in Photoshop.
I've created a video, "Photoshop: How to install, delete, or save a style" that demonstrates how to install and use this style.
Note that in Photoshop CC 2020, Styles is no longer in the presets manager, but all functions are in the styles palette menu.
USU Canvas Resources and Assignment for this week...
USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 14 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 14 Module. See the image at right.

​If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson.
This page last updated November 12, 2019.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2019 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.