Understanding layers with Barry Beckham

Barry Beckham took to digital photography in the early days when it was still considered a black art by many. He saw the potential of digital photography and the improvements it would bring and began using Photoshop back in the days when it was version 3. Barry has gone on to produce tutorials for many of the UK photography magazines as well as authoring a book for Photoshop Elements.

However, his main passion is creating high quality images using Photoshop and he has become quite an expert in the practical use of this software. He is now producing videos exclusively for ePhotozine.tv using Photoshop and PicturesToExe audio visual software.

Barry is also well know in audio visual circles for his stunning AV shows, many of which can be downloaded from his web site. Barry has lectured all around the UK where his practical skills are constantly in demand.

If you are a user of Photoshop or Elements and you’re not using layers you are letting 80% of the software's power pass you by.

This tutorial is aimed mostly at those who are having a little difficulty understanding the layers concept. Here, we have put together a tutorial that is both simple to follow, yet creative too.

Although we have used Photoshop CS3 for our demonstration you can follow this tutorial for any version of Photoshop or Elements. What we do with layers here is the same for them all.