Random thoughts on art, technology, stuff, and occasionally Real Estate: Photoshop: 1st Grade Primer On Layers: Page 3

What an awesome post. You are bookmarked for future reference.

Thank you, thank you. I love it when you post these tutorials. :)

Thank you, thank you. I love it when you post these tutorials. :)

I'm simply astonished at such informative posts that you write. They're better than many other tutorials you find on the net. 

Thanks for this informative blog.  I don't have photo shop yet, but am planning on purchasing it.  This will be very helpful.

Thanks!!!

OK. I can't print all of these. I guess I'm bookmarking as well as printing. 9 hours with buyers and my brain is mush!

What an awesome lesson.  I never did understand that layer thing before.  Thanks.

thanks for the info

Cheryl,the night is late and my eyes are poor so I've bookmarked you for a later time to see if there is anything further I can pick up. Thanks for sharing.

I am SO glad I found this.  I am getting this next week.  I have bookmarked this so I can come back and read up on it when I can play around and follow along with the primer!!  YAY!!

Very helpful indeed!

So helpful. Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a few photoshop tutorial days in my near future.

I've been seeing a lot of good tutorials on photoshop on AR. I think it might be a better resource than some of the webmaster boards. Keep them coming.

This was great. Photoshop has soooo many features you can work on it for years and never know it all. But it is a great program. Thanks for the post.

Thank you! You reduced the incredible fear I had of photoshop by half at least!

Thank you! You reduced the incredible fear I had of photoshop by half at least!

This is fun stuff. Been using photoshop professionally since version 1. Don't remember if we've commented that to you or not. We like it when we see this kind of help for others. The program is much easier now than what  it used to be, especially since version 3, which was when layers was first introduced.

Here's an image we did recently. We've shown it to someone in a comment once before, but don't remember who. If it was you, please excuse. The lake was choppy when we took the shot. The logo for the property on it's custom web site (see "Property Details" menu) had a mirror reflection to it. We wanted to make the lake look like it does when its still.

To do it, we had to isolate the water, the sky and the mountains. We then fixed the water, then mirrored the mountains to reflect off of it.

Hope you and those who see this enjoy. If anyone wants to know exactly how it was done, we're happy to share the psd file.

I just bought photoshop the other day and I was looking for a good post like this to help me learn the software. Thanks!

REALLY appreciate your taking the time to explain and share this with-us. My whole team at the brokerage will be reviewing this together at our staff meeting next Tuesday!

Everyone - Thank you!

Gary - It was Bryce's first post on masks Photography 101: Masks Pt 1   and it is an excellent image.  It really does invite you to walk down towards the lake.

JaneAnne - Do look at all the tutorial posts in Photography Group and Photoshop Elements Group for your staff meeting.  I've said before:  I like to think the tutorials created here by AR members are as good as any out there on the web.  Maybe better.  <s>

P.S. for JaneAnne:  For your staff meeting, if you want to start with the idea of 3 simple, basic techniques that can improve any real estate photo, point your staff here:  Photoshop 7: 3 Basic Techniques for Real Estate

Cheryl,

This is a great post.  It's easy to follow and very detailed.  Thanks for the help and keep the posts coming!

Ray:  Actually it is interesting that this one got featured ... since it is kind of a continuation of previous posts.  It started with Bryce writing a post on masking Photography 101: Masks Pt 1  ... and I figured folks might have trouble understanding masking, unless they were also familiar with layers .... so I wrote Photoshop: 1st Grade Primer On Layers  and page 2 and page 3 just kept building on the concept.  But hey, I'm not complaining <s>.

Cheryl - Another great post, bookmarked and printed out.  ;)

Great Post Cheryl,
I've been using Paint Shop Pro for many years and found it to be very similar with a few different whistles and bells of course. I tend to find many post on Photoshop but nothing on Paint Shop. Does anyone have any on my program? Keep up the great tutorials. I read them all the time.
Thanks, Bob and Lisa Hammerstein

Thanks for the tutorial Cheryl , i hope you and Bob are doing good. Shoot me an email sometime :)

Eddy

thanks for the tutorial.  it will deffinitly help in the future.

Thanks for another great tutorial!

Oh!  Layers!  I thought it was going to be a first grader's view on lawyers!  But this post is far more useful!  Thank you so much.

You are my "Photoshop" hero - thanks for all the generous pointers - I still need to "PRACTICE"

WOW! Thanks Cheryl! This is great!

NOOOOO! Don't flatten the image! That is the photoshop "F" word. If you need to go back and tweak your image or you realize something is out of place you're screwed! Save a layered version in PSD format then do "file/save for web" to create a web optimized flat version. Everyone needs to practice good graphic design file keeping habits.

You're right, Robert ...  Good point.  I should add "Save for Web" to the steps.......  I usually have so many incrementally saved versions ... that it didn't fly on my radar.  

no prob :)

Cheryl  As a PhgotoShop "newbie" I know I am going to be back here reading your posts regularly,  Karen

Karen, if you click "photoshop" and "photoshop elements" in my tag list, you should be able to see all my previous Photoshop stuff.  Ted Baker and some others have also written some good tutorials.