Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 46)

34 Layers and Masks

depth maps, creating animation frames, or masking, only work with standard

layers.

Once an image has more than just a background layer, the layer information can

only be preserved by saving the image in the native PhotoPlus (.SPP) format.

Multiple layers are merged when you export an image to a standard "flat" bitmap

format (e.g., .PNG). It’s best to save your work-in-progress as .SPP files, and

only export to a different file format as the final step.

Some standard operations can be applied to all layers simultaneously by

checking the Use All Layers option from the Context toolbar.

To carry out basic layer operations:

To select a layer, click on its name in the Layers tab. The selected layer is

now the active layer. Note that each layer’s entry includes a preview

thumbnail, which is visible at all times and is especially useful when

identifying layer contents.

To select multiple layers together, use Ctrl-click or Shift-click to select

non-adjacent or adjacent layers in the tab's stack. Once selected, multiple

layers can be moved, linked, aligned, duplicated, grouped, rearranged,

hidden, merged and deleted. To select all standard layers, choose Select All

layers from the Layers menu, or for just linked layers, choose Select Linked

Layers.

To create a new standard layer above the active layer, click the New

Layer button on the Layers tab. Dragging a file icon and dropping it onto

the current window also creates a new layer from the dragged image.

Select New Layer Group to create a group in which you can store

layers which have some relationship to each other—some layers may only

be related to a specific photo feature such that any changes to those layers

will be restricted to the group’s scope only. This gives greater control to

enable changes to opacity, blend modes and hide/show layer settings for the

group rather than for individual layers.

Click the New Adjustment Layer button to apply an image

adjustment to a layer (See Using adjustment layers on p. 54).

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