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Rearrange layers

Rearrange layers - Photoshop Tutorial

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Rearrange layers

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- [Instructor] The order of layers in the Layers panel can have a big impact on the appearance of an image in the document window. And that's because the order of layers in the Layers panel, from top to bottom, controls the order of content in the image from front to back. And you can control that by just rearranging layers in the Layers panel. Here's an ad that I'm making in which I've been putting different content on different layers to give myself design flexibility. I'll quickly show you what's on each layer. Here's the background layer. Above that in the Layers panel is the cloud layer. Above that, Building 1, above that, Building 2. And the checkerboard pattern on each layer represents transparency. And then we have the people layer on the top. That's the last content layer. Let's turn all the other layers back on. I want to show you what will happen if I rearrange the layers in the Layers panel. So keep your eye on the image as I click on the people layer, and I'm going to…

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