Learn all about layers in Photoshop with our Photoshop Layers Learning Guide! We’ve rounded up 10 of our layers tutorials into one convenient list and organized them in the best order to read them, so you can build up your skills one step at a time and get up to speed with Photoshop layers as quickly as possible!
The basics of layers have not changed at all over the years, so even though I’ll be using Photoshop CS6 here, everything is fully compatible with Photoshop CC as well as earlier versions of Photoshop. So, if you’re ready to learn about layers, let’s get started!
New to Photoshop layers? Start here! In this easy-to-follow, step-by-step lesson, we’ll learn the basics of what layers are, how they work, and why knowing how to use layers is such an essential Photoshop skill.
Understanding what layers are is great, but to really take advantage of them, we need to know how to use Photoshop’s Layers panel. In this tutorial, we take a whirlwind tour of the Layers panel and learn everything we need to know to get up and running quickly.
In this third tutorial in our Layers Learning Guide, we take another look at Photoshop’s Layers panel and learn some simple ways to customize it, keep it free of clutter and keep your Photoshop workflow more efficient!
The Background layer is different from other layers in Photoshop. It serves as the background for our documents. And because of that, it has certain rules we need to be aware of. In this fourth tutorial, learn all about the Background layer, why it’s different, and how to get around its limitations.
Depending on what you’re doing in Photoshop, you may find that the Background layer’s rules are getting in the way. In this tutorial, learn how to quickly free yourself from its limitations, and how to save the steps as a time-saving action!
Photoshop is great for blending and compositing images. But getting those images into the same Photoshop document can be a hassle if you don’t know about this one fantastic feature. In this tutorial, learn how to quickly open multiple images and have Photoshop place each image on its own layer within the same document!
As you add more and more layers to a document in Photoshop, your Layers panel can quickly become a cluttered mess of confusion. In this tutorial, learn how layer groups make it easy to keep things neat, tidy and organized!
Learn how to easily and automatically align and distribute layers within a Photoshop document using the Align and Distribute options, and how layer groups make it easy to center multiple layers with the document itself!
Photoshop’s Opacity and Fill options in the Layers panel both control the transparency of a layer, but in this tutorial, we learn the important difference between them when working with layer styles!
From creating, copying and selecting layers to blend modes, clipping masks and more, learn how to speed up your Photoshop workflow with these essential layers shortcuts!