How to Use Layers & Masks in Photoshop | Day 3

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In day 3 of 30 Days of Photoshop, Aaron covers two of the most important tools in all of Photoshop - Layers and Masks! Learn about how Photoshop projects are organized and how to combine multiple Layers and elements together to create a dynamic final image.
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Amazing and fun to learn tutorial. In case you are like me and want to seek back and forth to find that thing you have missed: 1. Standard Layers: 03:05 2. Layer Masks: 09:13 3. Adjustments Layers: 13:00 4. Type (Text) Layers: 15:46 5. Clipping Mask: 20:50 I would recommend you to see the entire video though. It's fun and lots of tips inside.

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Timestamps: 1. Standard Layer (03:05) 2. Masking layers(09:13) 3. Adjustment layers (13:00) 4. Type layers (15:45) 5. Clipping masks (20:50) 6. Recap (22:18)

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One suggestion that you should put time stamp in the description because some people may know basics of layers but didn't know everything so he can directly jump to the topic about which he didn't know. By the way love your video 👍

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