Terry Grogan

Oh yea, I love these layer styles! What a powerful tool. I thought scripts in PSP were great things. Layer styles in Photoshop are easier to do and much more flexible. I can see I'll be using this feature a lot.

Here's a text style I created. The one on the left in the original. I then applied it to the text on the right, but scaled it down by 50%. Click on the image to see a larger size.

Here are two new styles I created and applied to text. The third image is the second style with a hue overlay to change the color. You don't get the full effect of these new styles at this smaller size. On the one on the left, I used a satin overlay with an increased size. On the other two, there is a pattern overlay.  Click on the image to see a larger version.

The next set of tasks worked with styles applied to images. Here's the image I decided to work with. It's a picture of some coral and christmas tree worms I took down in Cozumel last week:

Here I applied an existing layer style called "black and white photo". Click on the image for a bigger version.

This is the first style I created on my own. I did this by applying a texture blend called waxpaper. I adjusted some of the settings with this blend until I got what I liked. I then added an soft chisel emboss and adjusted the settings on it until I got what I liked. Click on the image for a larger picture.

This style was created using a gradient blend. I used a black to white gradient, applied with a blend mode of hue and set at a radial angle. I fooled around with the scale and opacity of the gradient until I got the effect I wanted. Click on the image for a bigger picture.

This is another existing style called puzzle. I had to scale this to 30%. Clicking the image brings up a larger version.