From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
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Changing layer opacity, adding shape layers, and creating layer groups - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
Changing layer opacity, adding shape layers, and creating layer groups
- As you work with more and more layers one of the things that happens is that your Layers panel might get a bit out of control. So in order to organize your layers, you can use layer groups. Not only do groups help you organize your layers you can also move all of the layers in a group at one time, you can change the opacity and blend modes, you can even mask all of the layers or create special effects by adding layer effects to groups. So I'm going to start by selecting all four of the layers in my Layers panel. If they're not selected just click on the strawberries layer and hold down the Shift key and click on the tomatoes layer and that will select all of the layers in between. There's a lot of different ways that we can create a group. We can click on the folder icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. That's going to create a group. Or I can use the keyboard shortcut Command + G on Mac or Control + G on Windows. That…
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