ABSTRACT
Effects encompass a broad range of enhancements and adjustments from solid color fills and stroked outlines, to drop shadows and bevels, to combinations of these that create more complex layer styles. Application can be wild effects to more moderate doses of change that add separation between image objects and subtle image enhancement. Styles are akin to filters in that the people can waste hours and hours applying and adjusting them, and then undoing and applying again. It is easy to build a library of thousands of freebees by downloading them from the Internet and loading them into Photoshop. Although layer styles are handy for quick application of effects, there are built-in limitations to them. Layer Styles and Effects are layer-specific tools that carry with them a plethora of possibilities. Layer styles can help do many things, from adding a creative frame to an image in varying complexity, to creating text effects, to driving some image enhancements.
