I was recently asked "How do I create a style in Photoshop?" To answer that question, I've put together this tutorial. Layer styles are a wonderful way of saving work done to one object to apply those same changes to future elements.

For example, at work we're building a flash game that has a deck of cards. Each card has a graphical element on it. To make all these graphical elements appear to be part of the same deck, we used layer styles to apply a similar look and feel to each element.

The styles created can be elegant or ugly. My sample style is intentionally garish to highlight a variety of the options available: gradients, drop shadows, inner and outer glows and texturing.

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