Using Layer Styles and Comps - Adobe Photoshop CS6 Essentials - page 218

Using Layer Comps

Layer comps can store a series of layers' visibility settings (whether on or off),
positions, and/or layer styles. This makes layer comps great for exploring design
variations. In the following steps you will store a layer comp of the design as it
is, adjust a number of layer style parameters, and then save another layer style.
You'll be able to toggle between comps with a single click. This can be just the
ticket for making onscreen presentations.

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1. Continue using Digital-Art-6.psd . Choose Window a Layer
Comps.

2. Click the Create New Layer Comp icon at the bottom of the Layer
Comps panel. Deselect Visibility and Position and select Appearance
(Layer Style) in the New Layer Comp dialog box. Click OK to accept
the default name Layer Comp 1.

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3. Double-click the word Effects under the Rays layer to open the Layer
Style dialog box. Click the New Style button, type Sun in the New Style
dialog box, and click OK. Click OK again to close the Layer Style dia-
log box.

4. Drag the word Effects from the Octagram layer to the Rays layer to
overwrite the effects that you saved in the previous step as a style.

5. Select the Octagram layer in the Layers panel and click the Sun style
in the Styles panel to assign it to this layer.

6. Toggle off all the layer effects under the Lower Dividers layer by click-
ing the eye icon next to the word Effects (not the layer's eye icon).
Figure 9.24 shows the result.

7. Click the Create New Layer Comp icon at the bottom of the Layer
Comps panel. Click OK to accept the default name Layer Comp 2.

8. Click the Layer Comp icon next to Layer Comp 1 in the Layer Comps
panel. The canvas changes back to the way it was when you saved
Layer Comp 1 in step 2.