In passing years, Adobe has made the layers featureso powerful that today it almost overshadows Photoshop's most-used feature:the shipload of different ways you can select image areas. Layers have been a Photoshop feature since version 3.0 (shortly afterelectricity was discovered). Youcan change their color and add all sorts of wonderful effects to masksshapeswork only on layers, and that'swhy these two features are grouped into a single chapter. Vector masks are pre-designedshapesthey act as tiny portals to layers underneath the layer upon which avector mask resides, or they can appear as shapes against the background. To make image creation even easier, Adobe inventedsomething called vector masks. Why? Adobe has made creating shapes very simple, somewhat like opening atemplate of a design. Although, apparently, Photoshop layers and the Shapes tools have nothing incommon, when you get to real-world assignments, you'll find yourselfcontinually using first one feature and then the other.

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