Photoshop: Selections, Layers, and Compositing

This Photoshop tutorial covers:

  • Moving Selections
    • Move a selection on a page
    • Select and create a new layer
    • Select and copy to a new file
    • Copy merge
  • Working with Layers
    • Viewing layers
    • Organizing layers
    • Opacity
    • Layer Blending Modes
    • Pasting a layer inside another
    • Linking Layers
    • Creating New layers via cut and copy
  • Adding sprouts to our magazine cover
    • Selections with the Pen Tool
    • Adding Layers
    • Compositing multiple images
    • Adding to an image with the Clone Stamp Tool

Final Magazine Cover

Here is what our final magazine cover will look like. We’ll work together step-by-step to build it and learn Photoshop along the way.

Download the tutorial files to work along

Moving Selections

Layers Tutorial 1

Layers Tutorial 2

Selections, Layers, and Compositing