apya

hello i hope that im not writting this message in the wrong place sorry.
Im not english so i have some problems to understand something in one of the photoshop tutorial : Glassy glass buttons

im stuck in the fourth step
it is said
"Ctrl-click 'Layer 1' to create a selection of it; but stay on your current layer. Pick any selection tool, then hold down the Shift key and tap the up arrow key 3x. Press Ctrl+J. Pick the MOVE tool, then hold Shift again and hit the down arrow key 1x. Apply the FILTER>Blur>Blur More filter. Lower the Opacity to 55%. ( image on the right )"

and i don't understand anything what is underlined.
If someone could help me it would be vey kind of him

MindBlasting

Hi apya welcome to PSG.

What that means is when he say for ctrl-click layer ie for making a selection using the layer panel.(that make the highlight of previous selection)

> ctrl+j mean copy via layer ( ie if you made a selection in layer one and want that selection to be duplicated to another layer then this command comes in very handy to make a copy of the selection)

>This means pick the selection tool mentioned and the operation key while the layer is selected in the layer palate and hit the arrow key on your keyboard.


>ie ' V ' on the keyboard and while holding the shift key pressed on the keyboard hit the down arrow on your keyboard one time. Then go to filters menu and add blur>more blurr filter that's it your all done.

And for the opacity .........you will find that in the layers palate> there's a optiion for lowering the opacity of the layer.

I hope this message will help you,if not then there are always big guys in PSG to help you.

Have a nice time here and enjoy PSing