Mastering Photoshop CC Layers Second Edition

Adobe Photoshop CC is loaded with powerful photo editing tools, and yet its most powerful features are hidden away. Let me help you tap Photoshop’s most potent tools and begin to work just like a professional photo editor.

Here are a few of the things you will learn in this book
•The fundamentals of how Layers work in Photoshop. How to work with and organise them, making Photoshop faster and easier to use.
•Learn about the different types of Photoshop layer, including detailed instructions for using EVERY Adjustment Layer. These are some of Photoshop’s most powerful tools.

•How to use the Blend If controls to make targeted adjustments to photos based on colour and tone.
•How the different Blend Modes work in Photoshop. You will learn how to use these to make editing faster and easier as well as create amazing effects.

•How to use Smart Objects in your editing, to save you time in both the short and long term.
•Ways to combine different tools and techniques to produce impressive effects with ease.

Even if you have never worked with Layers before, this book will give you the tools to quickly advance your skills. All that’s assumed is that you have a basic Photoshop knowledge. Everything you need to know is explained step by step in detail.

This book is loaded with illustrations, exercises, and examples. You can download the supporting image files from my website to follow the editing on your own computer. There are even links to supporting YouTube videos published by the author.

This is a book written for photographers by a photographer.