Thread:Doctor Ibrahim/@comment-27550231-20160810043758/@comment-28358106-20160817041828

Here's a few quick tips. If you want to select the contour of an entire layer's shape quickly, use the Lasso to manually select around it. Free tramsform, and then move it around. When it stops moving, the Lasso will automatically contract to the shape's contour.

Likewise, the easiest way to color an entire shape it to Lasso an area you want to color, and then use the brush tool. The brush tool will only color to the edge of your selection. OR, make a selection, right click Fill, and it will fill the selection according to what you tell it to.

A slightly more advanced coloring technique is to adjust opacity. On the layers windows you'll see an opacity slider for the layer you're working on. It'll adjust how transparent a layer is.

For some more advanced fun, double click on a layer in the Layer window and it'll pull up the layer blending effects. Each effect is a universal shadow and gloss gradient that applies to every layer with the same effect. If you like an effect om a layer and want to apply it to another layer, right click a layer in the layer window and click Copy Layer Style. Then right click on the layers you want to have the same effect and click Paste Layer Style.

When you make a layer blending style, that layer in the window will habe a lottle arrow allowing you to drop down a little menu to see what effects are applied and turn them on or off (the little black bubbles in the boxes to the left of the layer menu.)