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Overview of stacked layers

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Overview of stacked layers

- [Instructor] In this chapter, we'll be highlighting California's wildflowers. We'll start by creating a set of overlapping layers, to represent receding hills and ridges. It will be on these hill layers that we will paint an array of wildflowers. By utilizing layers, we can individually adjust saturation and brightness to provide the illusion of depth. Let's get started. So here's the final poster, and I'm going to turn off all of the layers so you can see the base of this. And I actually shot this at a location called the Carrizo Plain. The San Andreas fault runs right through it, so there's a lot of very interesting geography and geology that goes along here. And so you get a lot of these inter-lapping ridges and hills, and what I want to do is use this as the basis for the image. But if you go back and look, notice there's what, one, two, three, four, five, there's six sets of ridges on this side. If we open this back up, you'll see, I simplified it, so there's only one, two…

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