Saving, Loading and Reusing Layer Styles in Photoshop
Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to save, load and reuse layer styles! Photoshop’s layer styles are a great way to create fun and interesting photo effects and text effects without requiring a lot of effort, or even a lot of skill. You don’t need to be a Photoshop guru or spend your life studying light and color theory to begin applying drop shadows, strokes, gradients, patterns, inner and outer glows and more to your images with layer styles, creating everything from subtle color effects to the wildest and craziest text effects anyone’s ever seen. In fact, the only thing you really need to benefit from layer styles in Photoshop is a willingness to play around and experiment. That, plus it also helps to have some free time on your hands, since layer styles can become a bit of an addiction.
If free time is in short supply, not to worry. Photoshop makes it easy to save our layer style creations so we can easily re-apply them to other images without having to redo any of the steps! In this tutorial, to give us something to work with, we’re going to be creating a simple photo frame using nothing but layer styles. When we’re done, we’re going to save the completed effect, and then we’ll see how to apply the exact same photo frame to a different image instantly!