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Photoshop Layer Style Effects: Recipes, Tutorials & Tips
Layer styles were introduced in Photoshop 6 and quickly caught on. They allow you to easily apply common special effects that conform to your layer content and remain editable and flexible. Here you'll find "recipes" for style settings to produce a variety of effects as well as tips and tricks related to working with layer styles.
Intertwined Hearts - Using Layer Styles and Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Create two interlocking hearts in Photoshop using layer styles.
How to Install layer Style Presets in Photoshop
There are hundreds of Web sites offering free Photoshop brushes, layer style effects, actions, shapes, patterns, gradients, and color swatch sets. Here's what to do with these files to get them working in Photoshop.
How to Install layer Style Presets in Photoshop Elements
Many Web sites (including this one) offer free Photoshop brushes, layer style effects, actions, shapes, patterns, gradients, and color swatch sets. All this free content can also be used in Photoshop Elements. Here's what you need to do with these files to get them working in Elements.
Scaling Layer Effects in Photoshop 6 and up
Use the Scale Effects command to adjust your layer styles for any size image or typeface.
Outline Type with Layer Styles
There are several ways to create outlined text in Photoshop, but in older versions of Photoshop you had to render the text or recreate the outline if the text was changed. In Photoshop 6.0 and later we have the stroke layer style which offers a great deal of flexibility.
Colored Orb with Layer Styles
Create a transparent colored orb using Photoshop 6 or 7. In this tutorial you will work primarily with layer styles, and also the gradient editor and selections.
See-Thru Text with Layer Styles
Using layer styles in Photoshop 6 or 7 we can create a very quick and easy transparent or see-through type effect. By saving the style, you can apply the effect with one click.
Create a Speaker
Here's a tutorial that will show you how to make a speaker using layer styles in Photoshop 6 and higher.
Gel Text using Layer Styles
"Here you'll learn a really cool effect you can use on your text or other objects, that makes them appear to be made of gel-like material."
Layer Styles Glass Text
This is a glassy text effect created with layer styles. Because layer styles are used it can easily be modified for any color.
Layer Styles Gold Text
Use Photoshop layer styles to create gold text in version 6 and up.
Painting with Style in Photoshop 6
From Digital Media Designer: "This is really just pre-applying a style to a layer, but it's a great trick for compositing and building effects and being able to view your progress as you go."