From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Design
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Adding layer styles to groups - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Design
Adding layer styles to groups
- [Instructor] There are advantages to applying layer styles, to layer groups. But if the objects in the group overlap you might be surprised at the results. So in this file, we have three images along the top, in their own layer group, and three images in this bottom layer group. I'm going to start by applying a layer effect to the image on the top left I'll choose the effects icon and start with drop shadow. I can reset this to the default and then click and drag in order to reposition it. I might increase the opacity to make sure we can see this as well as the size. Then I'm also going to add a stroke. So I'll select that and let's make that quite heavy, maybe 10 pixels to make sure that we can see it. Now, if I thought I was going to use this in the future I'd click on styles, create a new style. I'll call this GGB for Golden Gate Bridge and then DS for drop shadow, plus a stroke. I'll include the layer effects…
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