Photoshop layers

In Photoshop layers there are different techniques in enchanting your image.

The layer palette is the where all your new layers and backgrounds are placed, here you can move layers into order, for example, if you want an apple to be placed over a tree layer, the apple layer must be placed above the tree layer.

Inside the palette, there are different controls and tools to change your selected layer, one for example in the opacity tool which makes the layer selected cloudier.

New Layer lets you creates a new layer that is automatically placed above the layer that you have selected.

This new layer will be blank until drawn upon or until it has a picture on it.

Opacity, as stated before, is a tool which makes the selected layer transparent, for example 0% opacity makes the layer disappear, 100% makes the layer as clear as it can be, 1 - 99% makes the layer transparent.

Visibility is the little eye icon that can be found next to layers and backgrounds on your palette, clicking on a visibility icon will turn off that layer making it disappear entirely, clicking on it again will bring it back.

The transform menu lets you edit your layer, it can let you flip your layer, rotate, turn and even warp your layer, which will deform the image.

In photoshop, you can copy and paste on the image, giving you a new layer, i did this by selecting the elliptical tool, drawing an oval and then copying and pasting, this will take the part of the layer you had highlighted with the oval and add it again to the image, in a whole layer.

Layer styles makes you do advanced editing to your image, you can add a shadow, emboss or bevel it, add glows and even add strokes to your layer.

Blending modes will make your layer that you have selected, blend into other layers. The layer will then darken or lighten to the layer.