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Default layer effects are evil
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By Vlad Studio
Published on 04/28/2007
 
Default layer effects are evil Default layer effects are evil
This very short tutorial is to express my belief in the fact that default layer effects settings in photoshop are really bad.

Default layer effects are evil

Default layer effects are evil - Step 1

This very short tutorial is to express my belief in the fact that default layer effects settings in photoshop are really bad. Each setting (bland mode, size, angle, etc) should be always carefully tuned to fit into general style of your design. Shown left is 2 text layers with 2 effects, drop shadow and bevel. Here I simply turned them on...

Default layer effects are evil - Step 2

... and here I spent another couple of seconds to set up effects in the way I liked. Moral? No effects look better than too much effects.

Author: Vlad Gerasimov