Last updated on
Feb. 25, 2025
Learn about the adjustments, transformations, and effects that can be performed on a layer to enhance your creative projects.
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- Blend and opacity : Blend refer to the blending mode that determines how a layer’s pixels interact with those beneath it. By adjusting the blending mode, you can create various visual effects such as changing colors, brightness, and contrast. Opacity refer to the transparency level of a layer, controlling how visible the layer is. A layer with 100% opacity is fully visible, while a layer with 0% opacity is completely transparent.
- Edit mask: Allow you to make adjustments to an existing mask.
- Modify mask : Allow you to alter the properties of a mask.
- Transform : Allow you to resize, rotate, skew, distort, or change the perspective of a layer or an object.
- Delete : Delete the active layer.
- Lock : Lock the layer so it can’t be edited.
- Duplicate layer : Duplicate the active layer.
- Visibility : Show/Hide the selected layer.
- Move up : Move the selected layer upward in the layer stack.
- Move down : Move the selected layer downward in the layer stack.
- Clip : Clip the selected layer.
- Delete mask : Delete the layer mask.
