ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9
Using layers
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Fill layers let you fill a layer with a solid color, gradient, or pattern. Unlike adjustment layers, fill layers do not affect
the layers below them. To paint on a fill layer, you must first convert it (simplify it) into a regular layer.
Adjustment and fill layers have the same opacity and blending mode options as image layers, and you can move and
reposition them just as you do image layers. By default, adjustment and fill layers are named for their type (for example,
Solid Color fill layer and Invert adjustment layer).
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Create Adjustment Layer menu
A. Fill layers B. Adjustment layers
More Help topics
“Edit the layer masks” on page 75
“About opacity and blending options in layers” on page 69
“Apply the Smart Brush tools” on page 118
“Simplify a layer” on page 63
Create adjustment layers
1 In the Layers panel, select the topmost layer you want to affect.
2 To confine the effects of the adjustment layer to a selected area in that layer, make a selection.
3 Do one of the following:
• To affect all the layers below the adjustment layer, click the Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer button at the
bottom of the Layers panel. Then, choose one of the following adjustment types. (The first three options in the
menu are fill layers, not adjustment layers.)
Last updated 1/27/2011