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The layered composition

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The layered composition

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- In this chapter, we'll take a first look at one of Photoshop's most powerful image creation tools, layers. Layers do not occur spontaneously. Every digital photograph begins life as a flat, no layer image file. In Photoshop, this flat image is called the background, and it is literally locked inside the four walls of the always rectangular canvas, but layers are easy to create. When you so much just copy and paste one image into another, the pasted image becomes an independent layer. This means that it can be any shape and size inside the rectangular canvas. This also makes it and any other layers in the document altogether independent of each other. You can move and otherwise edit one layer without effecting another, making for a highly flexible, very nearly penalty-free image editing environment. Plus, you can introduce transparency. In a flat, full-color image, a pixel may be one of several million colors, at…

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