From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Photoshop Cert Prep

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Layer Styles

Layer Styles

We also already talked about layer styles in previous topics so I'm just going to go through quickly the things that they might ask about in the exam. So first of all in this file I already put the mushroom on a separate layer which allows me to apply layer styles or layer effects on it. I will double click on the layer and within the layer style panel I can choose something like outer glow and I'm just going to increase the opacity and probably the size and also maybe the spread. Yeah, something like that will work quite nicely and I will change the color to something like this blue that we have in the image or it could also be this purple or magenta or pink color and then I can click OK. Now as you can see this effect is going to show up here in the Layers panel. we can easily turn it off, turn it back on, if I double click on it I can go back and refine it further if I wanted to but there is one additional important feature they might ask about in the exam and that is how can you…

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