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Photoshop Book of the Week

 

This week I have to call attention to The Creative Digital Darkroom by Katrin Eismann and Sean Duggan. This book brings the techniques and the vernacular of the traditional darkroom into the digital realm. While it’s not necessarily a Photoshop book in the traditional sense, this book focuses on only the photographic aspects of Photoshop, taking the fluff out of using superfluous tools and getting right into making your photos the best they can be. This book is intended for the intermediate to advanced user and will appeal to the artist and photographers alike. Incidentally, Katrin has just released a new course on Kelby Training called Creative Panoramic Photography where she teaches all aspects of creative awesome panoramic photos.

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
by Colin Smith

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