photoshop layer styles

[scooter]

Has anyone got any advice on photoshop layer styles, preferably creating them or if not where to find them available for general use.
scooter

 

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I'm not altogether sure what the question means. Is "Photoshop Layer Styles" a program-specific question (such as an add-on named "Layers"), or are you asking about different peoples' experiences in building layers with art programs?

 

[scooter]

applied layer styles in photoshop

Hi. I,m looking for the layer styles found in the styles pallet in photoshop.
I can find loads of brushs,gradiants etc but styles or info about how to make them seems hard to find.

 

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Layers

Scooter, I'm as close to being an expert as I am to living in the Oort Belt. But one of my favorite ways to do gradients is to pick a shape (usually an elipse) that covers the area I want to shade, paint the elipse black, then do a gradient of transparency: often 50% transparent center fading to 100% transparent outside. It is then placed OVER the picture, so the picture shows through the shadow you have created.

This is very pedestrian, but it's easy and it works.

I hope someone who is quite adept steps up to the plate and tells you a better way.

--WB

 

[scooter]

Thanks for that. At my age slow can be good!