You may have seen the text effect where a photo or other image is used to fill a block of text. This effect is easy to do with the layer grouping feature in Photoshop Elements. Old timers may know this technique as a clipping path. In this tutorial you'll work with the type tool, layers, adjustment layers, and layer styles.
One of the most important image adjustment features in a professional photographer’s workflow is Curves (a sort of Levels command on steroids). Color Curves has now made a welcome appearance in the Enhance menu in Photoshop Elements but it is still not available as an adjustment layer. This project shows you several ways to control contrast using adjustment layers to increase your post-production editing power to maximum performance.
This tutorial covers how to create the illusion that a person is popping out of a picture in 3-D. Using the distort filter and layer effects, the photo appears to float over the background.
Within the topic of layers there are two specific areas that we would define as being the most powerful aspects of layers. These are layer masks and Adjustment layers. In this video, and the next, we will address the former of these, the wonderful layer mask.