What you'll need for this tutorial:
Difficulty level: Easy
Step one: Look over to your Layers window (if not visible click Window > Layers, or F7.
Select the farthest top layer on your layers window, my layer furthest to the top is "Vibrance 1".
Now you need to create a new layer by clicking the "Create a new layer" button (Hotkey: Shift+Ctrl+N).
Step two: With your newly created layer selected click "Image" and "Apply Image..." (Hotkey: (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E) then select "OK".
Do NOT mess with any of the preset settings!
Notice: Now you should notice in the layer you created should be filled with whatever was inside of the canvas.
What actually just happened is PhotoShop basically merges all of your layers together and places it in one layer so that you don't have to flip back from layer to layer to apply filters to them.
What you're left with:
As you can tell my newly added layer which we applied the image to is "Layer 24".
You should be able to notice that you correctly applied the image onto the new layer by looking at that layers' thumbnail.
A final note: Whenever you apply an image into a new layer, you keep all of your layers.
This is why you apply image layers instead of merging them so that you still have a backup incase if you ruin your applied image layer (and trust me, you will).
Q&A (Questions and answers):
Why did you create such a simple tutorial?
I made such a simple tutorial because I'm sure that some people don't know about this, and I'm sure even advanced users might have learned something from viewing this.
Credits:
+ad.Vanquish for writing and providing the pictures.
Provenance for providing me with his glorious Teemo.PSD for the use of this tutorial.
- Adobe Photoshop
- Brain
- Work in progress on a canvas
Difficulty level: Easy
Step one: Look over to your Layers window (if not visible click Window > Layers, or F7.
Select the farthest top layer on your layers window, my layer furthest to the top is "Vibrance 1".
Now you need to create a new layer by clicking the "Create a new layer" button (Hotkey: Shift+Ctrl+N).
Step two: With your newly created layer selected click "Image" and "Apply Image..." (Hotkey: (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E) then select "OK".
Do NOT mess with any of the preset settings!
Notice: Now you should notice in the layer you created should be filled with whatever was inside of the canvas.
What actually just happened is PhotoShop basically merges all of your layers together and places it in one layer so that you don't have to flip back from layer to layer to apply filters to them.
What you're left with:
As you can tell my newly added layer which we applied the image to is "Layer 24".
You should be able to notice that you correctly applied the image onto the new layer by looking at that layers' thumbnail.
A final note: Whenever you apply an image into a new layer, you keep all of your layers.
This is why you apply image layers instead of merging them so that you still have a backup incase if you ruin your applied image layer (and trust me, you will).
Q&A (Questions and answers):
Why did you create such a simple tutorial?
I made such a simple tutorial because I'm sure that some people don't know about this, and I'm sure even advanced users might have learned something from viewing this.
Credits:
+ad.Vanquish for writing and providing the pictures.
Provenance for providing me with his glorious Teemo.PSD for the use of this tutorial.