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BryanDowning

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 4:28 pm    Post subject: PF FT: Add Styles to the Background Layer Reply with quote

Tip: Add Styles to the "Background" Layer

Wait, you can add layer styles to your background layer?? Nope, you can't. You have to convert the background layer to a regular layer. There's a few ways to do this. You can:

1) Double click on the title of the background layer, "Background", and change the name to something else. This will make the background layer a regular Joe Shmoe layer.

2) Copy the background layer and delete the actual background layer, leaving only the copy behind.

3) The fastest way to make the background layer a regular layer is to hold down the Alt key and double click the background layer. This will automatically change the background layer to "Layer 0" making it a regular layer.

Now you can do whatever you want to the background layer!

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great idea!! :) And a winner for starters.. didn't know about point 3. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Oybro. :)
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I said background twelve times in that post...
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 12:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are welcome to my true black and white point - colour correctoin, tutorial. Not my own invention but a great tutorial nonetheless, Credit goes to numerous sources but Katrin Eismann takes the biccie.

A great edge sharpenening technique is also yours if you want it, Again not my own, but collected over the years from experience.

I wont detail them here, just in case you want to make another thread Patrick (not suggesting you do)......

I think it would be valuable to keep all really helpful advice and info in its own thread and prune according to relevance when needed. (so probably this post can go:p)

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i didnt know about point 3 either thnx.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent!

Thanks :)

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finally, finally, found the answer to this, thanks!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I feel like an idiot. I've been dupicating the background, and then deleting it for about 5 years.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you! Big Grin
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