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This is our Fifteenth Photoshop tutorials post for the Beginners. Here we have listed very basic method to handle Rotate, Crop, Trim, Trap, Layer menu and Layer style.

ROTATE CANVAS:

Allow you to rotate the entire canvas. i.e. all the layers at one go.

Rotate Canvas 180:

Rotates the canvas by 180 degree.

Rotate canvas 90 CW:

Rotates the canvas 90 clock wise.

Rotate canvas 90 CCW:

Rotates the canvas 90 counter clock wise.

Flip Canvas Horizontal:

Mirrors the image horizontally.

Flip Canvas Vertically:

Mirrors the image vertically.

CROP:

In addition to the crop tool, you can use the crop and trim commands to crop an image.

TRIM:

In addition to the crop tool, you can use the crop and trim commands to crop an image.

TRAP:

A trap is and overlap that prevents tiny gaps from appearing in the printed image, due to a slight miss-registration on press.

LAYERS:

Layers are like transparent sheets; you can see through the area, which is not painted or filled, you can have as many layers as you want.

New:

There are six ways of creating new layer.

Layer:

Creates a new layer with no content in it.

Layer from Background:

Creates a new layer with the content to layer selected and the background color.

Layer Set:

Creates a new layer set. Layer In addition to the crop tool, you can use the crop and trim commands to crop an image.

Layer via Copy:

Creates a new layer form the selection by copying the content of selection.

Layer Via cut:

Creates a new layer form the selection by cutting the content of selection.

Duplicate Layer:

Command creates a duplicate of the selected layer.

Delete:

There are three ways of deleting:

Delete:

Delete the selected layer.

Delete Linked:

Deletes the entire linked layer.

Delete hidden:

Deletes the entire hidden layer.

Layer Properties:

Command allows you to change the title of the layer and give it a color for display.

Layer Style:

Photoshop provides you variety of effects such as shadows, glows, bevels, overlays, and strokes, which you can apply on layers and get, desired effect.

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