"clint" wrote in message
Just curious, did you have a stroke?
"frank" wrote in message
Hello,
I have been using PS7 and for what I do right now, I don't need CS2 nor will I chase new programs ad nauseum or ad infinitum. I bought a set of PS7 DVDs by Deke somebody and two good books. My problem is I have a perceptual problem after an accident and for some reason I cannot grasp how to apply layers. I do the mechanics easily enough but applying them is hard to understand, (hell I can't even explain WHY I can't grasp them) I have no problem with anything else on PS7(levels, curves,colorizing, filters, sizing etc etc) but layers is driving me nuts and is frustrating.
Being CS2 is getting all the attention,I can't find anything specific to Layers on PS7. My books have a basic overview and the DVD describes the mechanics. I need a book or something specific to using layers, applications, uses, terms etc etc. After that I will be fine. OR if anyone lives in New Jersey, I would gladly pay for tutoring for a few hours. If anyone knows of a book, or are in NJ who can tutor. Please help.
Any infantile emails will be ignored.
....thanks Frank
Some good examples have been given. Yes, thinking of layers as images on transparent sheets stacks on top of each other is a good analogy.
Try this, Open PS and create a new image, now make a square with your marquee tool and fill it with a color. Now, open your layers window by going to windows and clicking on layers. No drag you background to the, "create new layer," icon at the bottom of the layers window. What this did was create a new layer that is an exact copy of your background.
Now, Your Square should still be out lined by the marquee tool, from your menu bar select the move tool and then click and drag the square down and right. You will now see your original revealed behind the new layer. Now by clicking on either layer you can select that layer only and perform any PS filter or effect on it. So, go ahead and try it, select the background layer and go to Image/adjust/hue and change its color.
Now for the cool part, go to your copy of background layer, with your eraser tool erase the part of the new layer that over laps the background..
Now try this. Make a blue circle and yellow circle and make the overlap part green...
After you get a handle on this perhaps someone will walk you through "layer masks" a very powerful feature of layers.
A good example of the use of layers is making a copy of a portrait sharpening the background and then revealing the sharpened layer only where you want to, say the eyes.