Photoshop Elements v3

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Hunibal
May 30, 2005
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I am using ( trying) Photoshop elements v3
Would like to learn the mystery of layers – but yet to fined a simple concise teaching if it.
Dose it have to be all that difficult, where learners like me are turned away?
Or – am I – too stupid – to grasp the concept?

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Cheers _ Hunibal _
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whizwhizwhizwhizwhiz
May 30, 2005
Thank of layers a clears sheets of plastic over a colored (usually white) sheet of paper or over another image. You create a layer and place something on it for example you have a nice beach picture to use as the back ground and you create a layer and place the cut out of a person on it. It now looks as if that person is on the beach. With Photoshop you can adjust the opacity (transparency) of the layer so that the person looks like a ghost on the beach, you can also adjust blending modes (the little drop down menu at the top of the layers palette, it defaults to normal). You can also rotate, skew, warp and do other things to the contents of the layer.

I don’t know if this helped, but that is basically what layers are all about. There are also layer masks, layer effects (drop shadows, bevels, etc.) as well as adjustment layers. These are either flavors of layers or an add-on to a layer. For more on these look them up in the online help in Elements 3.

"Hunibal" wrote in message
I am using ( trying) Photoshop elements v3
Would like to learn the mystery of layers – but yet to fined a simple concise teaching if it.
Dose it have to be all that difficult, where learners like me are turned away?
Or – am I – too stupid – to grasp the concept?

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Cheers _ Hunibal _
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Hunibal
May 30, 2005
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Cheers _ Hunibal _
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Thank of layers a clears sheets of plastic over a colored (usually white) sheet of paper or over another image. You create a layer and place something on it for example you have a nice beach picture to use as the back ground and you create a layer and place the cut out of a person on it. It now looks as if that person is on the beach. With Photoshop you can adjust the opacity (transparency) of the layer so that the person looks like a ghost on the beach, you can also adjust blending modes (the little drop down menu at the top of the layers palette, it defaults to normal). You can also rotate, skew, warp and do other things to the contents of the layer.

I don’t know if this helped, but that is basically what layers are all about. There are also layer masks, layer effects (drop shadows, bevels, etc.) as well as adjustment layers. These are either flavors of layers or an add-on to a layer. For more on these look them up in the online help in Elements 3.

"Hunibal" wrote in message
I am using ( trying) Photoshop elements v3
Would like to learn the mystery of layers – but yet to fined a simple concise teaching if it.
Dose it have to be all that difficult, where learners like me are turned away?
Or – am I – too stupid – to grasp the concept?

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Cheers _ Hunibal _

Thanx for your help – but it is – still – foggie to me. <smile>

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Amateur
May 31, 2005
On Sun, 29 May 2005 20:30:05 -0400, "Hunibal" wrote:

I am using ( trying) Photoshop elements v3
Would like to learn the mystery of layers – but yet to fined a simple concise teaching if it.
Dose it have to be all that difficult, where learners like me are turned away?
Or – am I – too stupid – to grasp the concept?

Have a look at this tutorial and see if it helps. Once the light comes on I think you’ll grasp it pretty easily.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/layers/intro.htm
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Hunibal
May 31, 2005
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Cheers _ Hunibal _
"Amateur" wrote in message
On Sun, 29 May 2005 20:30:05 -0400, "Hunibal" wrote:

I am using ( trying) Photoshop elements v3
Would like to learn the mystery of layers – but yet to fined a simple concise teaching if it.
Dose it have to be all that difficult, where learners like me are turned away?
Or – am I – too stupid – to grasp the concept?

Have a look at this tutorial and see if it helps. Once the light comes on I think you’ll grasp it pretty easily.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/layers/intro.htm

Looks like what I need. Thanx

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