Adding Fun and Useful Effects - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 714

▪ Photographic Effects include traditional photographic techniques. You can add a variety
of monochrome effects, like good old-fashioned sepia.
▪ Strokes let you put a black or colored border around the edge of a layer or object. These
styles are great for creating outlined text.
▪ Visibility changes a layer's opacity and visibility. Use these styles to create a ghosted ef-
fect, or when you're applying multiple layer styles and want to use an object's outline
without having the object itself visible.
▪ Wow Chrome, Neon , and Plastic styles make objects look like they're made of shiny
chrome, outlined in neon, or made of plastic.
If someone sends you a file made using layer styles that you don't have, you can snag those
styles for your own use by highlighting the layer that has the styles applied to it and then go-
ing to Layer→Layer Style→Copy Layer Style. To use these styles in your own image, click
the layer you want to modify, and then choose Layer→Layer Style→Paste Layer Style (this
command applies all the styles used in the original image to the active layer in your docu-
ment).
If you want to duplicate the layer styles from one layer to another within a single image, the
process is simpler. In the Layers panel, just Alt-click/Option-click the little fx icon for the
layer whose style you want to duplicate, and drag it onto the layer you want to apply that
style to. (If you drag the fx without pressing Alt or Option, you'll move the layer style from
one layer to the other rather than duplicating it.)
To remove a layer style, in the Layers panel, right-click/Control-click the layer it's applied
to, and then choose Clear Layer Style. Alternatively, make sure the layer with the style is the
active layer (if not, click it in the Layers panel), and then go to Layer→Layer Style→Clear
Layer Style. Either way, this command is all or nothing: If your layer has multiple styles,
they all go away. To remove one style at a time, use the History panel ( Undo ) instead.
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To see what your image looks like without the styles you've applied to it, go to Layer-
→Layer Style→Hide All Effects.