Create, correct, and control with layers,
the most powerful tool in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Imagine
yourself in total control of every adjustment to your photos. Youve seen
the illustrations in glossy magazines, the fine art reproductions in
museum catalogs, the award-winning pictures of professional
photographers. To produce this kind of magic, understanding how to use
layers for your entire breadth of image correction is key. Discover the
best ways to showcase your talent with the full power of layers from
best-selling author/digital image specialist Richard Lynch. Learn what
layers can do for you as an integral part of organizing image
development, creating and storing image versions with nondestructive
editing, and promoting a positive workflow. Timeless, not version
specific, this book will help you take layers to a new level to increase
your efficiency and produce better end results, whatever release of the
software you use. Step-by-step instructions and practical examples
illustrate how to Dont make your work harder than it needs to be when
you can use layers to control any adjustment using multiple forms of
blending concurrently transparency, clipping, opacity/fill, masking,
modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and styles. Author Richard Lynch is
a photographer, designer, editor, web developer, and author of the
popular Hidden Powers series on Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. He
also writes for PCPhoto, Popular Photography, Digital Photographer, and
Digital Photography Techniques.

* Leverage layer power to correct and enhance color, fix problems in
composition, repair damage or flaws, and isolate image areas for
changes, adjustments and experimental concepts

* Incorporate layers in a workflow that extracts the maximum from your
camera, exploits the potential in every image and helps you organize
your perceptions and ideas according to your unique vision

* Recombine layers to form new images in a nondestructive process that
preserves both the original image and intermediate layers for further
editing - or tomorrow's inspirations