If for any reason, the circle didn’t move - you probably forget to make that layer before you filled it with red. The shortcut is the letter ‘v.’ So, press ‘v’ to get the Move tool - click anywhere within that red circle and drag it over to the right to move the circle. It’s the top tool in the Toolbar (it looks like a four-headed arrow), and this is a particularly handy one to know the keyboard shortcut for because you’ll be using this tool a lot. We move stuff on layers around using the Move tool. ![]() We still have a red circle, and it’s still in the same place, but since you created this on a layer, it’s now movable because it’s floating on a layer above the background. Now press Option-Delete (PC: Alt-Background) to fill this circle with red, then Deselect by pressing Command-D on Mac or Ctrl-D on PC. This creates a new blank layer for you to work on, and if you look in the Layers panel, you’ll now see Layer 1, which appears above your background layer. So, instead of just filling it with red and painting permanently over our image, go to the bottom of the Layers panel and click the New Layer icon at the bottom of the panel (its icon looks like a square with a + sign inside it. Press Command-Z (PC: Ctrl-Z) a few times until the red fill is gone, but you still see the circular selection you made (as seen here). So, let’s go ahead and undo what we’ve done. With Layers, that red circle would float above your image, so you can reposition it, change its size, shape, opacity, and you can even delete it altogether if you change your mind. ![]() Instead of just covering up part of your image, like you painted a big red circle over it. What you’ve done here so far is covered up part of your image with a red circle. You can Deselect the circle now by pressing Command-D on Mac or Ctrl-D on a PC. Now, we’re going to fill that circular selection with red by pressing Option-Delete on a Mac or Alt-Backspace if you’re on a Windows PC. (By the way - it doesn’t really matter which color you pick, so just choose any color you’d like). Click on the front square, and from the color picker that appears, choose red as your foreground color and click OK. When you open an image in Photoshop, by default, that image’s name in the Layers panel is “Background Layer,” so when you bring an image over from Lightroom, that is what you’ll see in the Layers panel.Īt the bottom of Photoshop’s Toolbar, there are two squares: the frontmost one is where you choose your Foreground Color the one behind it is for choosing your background color. At this point, you only have one layer - the Background layer and that layer is the image of Hong Kong. Once your circle is in place, press F-7 on your keyboard (or go under the Window menu up top and choose Layers) to make your Layers panel visible. Hold the Shift key if you want a perfect circle as I made here. Next, just click and drag the tool in your image, and an oval selection will appear. From the pop-out tool menu that appears, choose the Elliptical (round) marque tool and drag out a large circular selection over your image (as seen here). ![]() Go to Photoshop’s Toolbar click and hold on to the Rectangular Marquee tool. Here’s our background image of Hong Kong. So don’t worry - we will dig in deeper, but today, we’ll start with the essentials. In this issue, we’re just going to focus on understanding the basics of what layers are and a bit about how they work. If this doesn’t make sense yet, don’t worry - it will, and you’ll fall in love with using layers because they are pretty awesome. ![]() It’s also about adding type to your image (pro-level type), and it’s about adding special effects to your images. Layers let you stack images on top of each other so you can create collages, montages, composition, fine art. Starting with this installment, we’re going to start to unlock the power of Photoshop’s Layers, which is another of the main reasons we take an image over to Photoshop in the first place. Time to move on from removing stuff (from the last few weeks), and now we’ll start adding stuff.
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