Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates, Fourth Edition

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Figure 5.6
Design that uses a rounded edge for the upper-left corner of the page body. Copyright † 2002 by Next
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text (see Figure 5.9). When creating comps for homepages, it is not unusual to
create as many as 60 to 80 layers, which, additionally, can be nested within parent
layers, called Groups —in other words, a layer can serve as a folder for additional
layers.
Another advantage of layers is that they can be turned off easily so that if the
client wanted to see the image in Figure 5.9 without the word “yo!,” the designer
could simply shut off that layer and save a new version of the Photoshop
PSD file.
Figure 5.7
Image that is made up of layers.
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