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JIMMY HARTMAN: Hi, this is Jimmy on behalf of Expert Village. And in this clip, I'm going
to show you how to access the layer styles palette in Photoshop in order to start applying
your effects. Okay, let's go ahead and get started here. First thing, we're going to
make a new file here. Go to File, New. Shortcut for this is Ctrl+N. I'm going to accept 500
x 320. That will be fine for this example. And I'm going to increase the area of this.
I'm going to zoom in to a hundred percent here. Now, I'm going to--to see our layer
effects better, I'm going to go and use a dark background here. So I'm going to go to
layers. And to make--to fill a layer with a certain color, you use your background color
here. I've selected this dark blue. And to fill your selected layer, you hold down the
control key and then you hit backspace, and it will fill your layer with the background
color. All right. I'm going to create a new layer for my object, and then I'm going to
go ahead and choose the Ellipse tool here and create a circle while in the shift key.
And that should be good for now. Okay. Now, we need to access the layer styles dialogue.
So we'll get our layers panel open. There's a couple of ways you can do this. One is to
act this Effects button at the bottom here of your layers palette. It gives you a list
of all the layer styles you can use, so you can set which particular one you want. Or
you can go to the right of the name of the layer you're on. You double-click in this
area--this blank area, and that brings up your layer styles dialogue box. And as you
can see on the left, you have all your layer styles; and on the right, you'll have options
for each individual layer style. We won't be getting into the blending--the default
blending options here too much. We're just going to kinda start on the styles for now.