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Post by trippindaisy on Aug 7, 2007 19:08:03 GMT -5
I am trying to learn how to touch up photos with photoshop.
I have learned a lot from the online tutorials, but one thing is confusing me - what exactly is the purpose of making duplicate layers? When I am done making the changes to a photo, am I supposed to merge the one I am working on and the original back together?
I am trying to learn things like, removing wrinkles or dark circles, whitening teeth, evening out skin tone, and other stuff like bluring the edges of pictures. I basically want the photos I take to just look a little better
Others could probably answer better but when i was Photoshopping a lot I would use that for a security net. So i could make changes and view the layers seperately.
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for tweaking one layer and it acting as an overlay.
I am confused by your wording/usage of "duplicate layers". The only reason I use duplicate layers is if I want to change something but don't want to commit to the changes and have the other layer as a backup. Do you mean just "indivudual" layers instead of "duplicate" layers?
You can merge the layers back together if you want. The only reason NOT to is if you wanted to make changes again later on down the road and you need that individual layer to work on again and don't want to have to make the part you're working on an individual layer again. Flattening the image will make the file size smaller...layers make the file size larger.
You can merge all layers by going to Layers>Flatten Image (the small arrow on the top right of the layers window will take you to flatten layers as well). This will get rid of all the individual layers and make it one image. Keep in mind that you cannot get these layers back once you close the file. You can also merge layers together without flattening the image by clicking on the layer you want to merge and hitting the arrow on the top right side of the layers window, then going to MERGE DOWN. This will merge the layer you are on with the layer underneath it. MERGE VISIBLE is basically the same as flatten image (if all of the layers are visible. If they are not all visible, then the image will only merge the layers that are active).
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Post by trippindaisy on Aug 8, 2007 9:40:50 GMT -5
That helps so much. All of the tutorials start off telling you to do a duplicate layer so that is why I was doing that. I just didn't understand why, so basically I don't really need to do that
I think maybe I was just thinking it was more complicated than it is.
