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Inspiring
April 8, 2011
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P: Multiple and reorder/sort effects/styles

  • April 8, 2011
  • 70 replies
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I would love to be able to have 2 different drop shadows, inner shadows, gradients etc in a single layer. Very often I have to dupe the layer, put 0 fill and apply extra styles that way. It's inconvenient and messy, especially when trying to apply the same effect onto other layers.

Also, it would be great if I were able to sort the effects. Meaning, I could put drop shadow above or below inner shadow, stroke above the inner shadow and bevel, etc.

70 replies

Inspiring
January 10, 2013
Exactly what I was thinking!
Inspiring
January 9, 2013


Dirk van Boxtel
Participating Frequently
December 6, 2012
Jeez this site is a hassle. I just wanted to hit +1. It made me log in with my Adobe ID, which failed like, 5 times in a row (ajax issues, stuck, not my connection, something on your side) and then had me go to my email to verify myself - and it ended up sending me two emails.

Really, just to press +1?

Anyway, I wholeheartedly endorse the idea of re-arrangeable layer styles. It's something that would make life lots easier.

Especially when combined with "linked layer styles", so that we can edit something once, and it'll change everywhere. But that's a different topic, I guess.
Inspiring
July 9, 2012
Yes! I was thinking about this feature too couple of weeks ago and I'm glad I'm not the only one needing it.
Inspiring
May 9, 2012
It would be great to be able to add more than one specific layer style to one layer. Consider I want 5px red inner stroke and 10px black outer stroke with 50% opacity at the same time. Also, I would like to be able to move the layer styles up and down so that my "gradient overlay" layer style with 50% opacity can be over my "color overlay" layer style. Now I have to duplicate the layer in order to achieve this and I guess it is an unnecessary effort.

Please see the attached image.



powal1234
Participating Frequently
April 26, 2012
THIS Feature would really rock! Totally agree on that - often having trouble with duplicates of layers.
This would make my life soo much easier and make my work with photoshop so much more convenient.

I'm soo happy seeing others requesting the features I dream of 🙂
Participant
April 20, 2012
I would like to be able to changed the stacking order of layer effects in the effects panel with drag and drop. For example, if I have a thick stroke applied to text, 10 pixels for example, if I choose to also use an outer glow I want the outer glow to appear on top of the stroke.

This doesn't seem to be something I've seen requested before which leads me to think there is a simply way to do it.

Participating Frequently
April 3, 2012
I'm posting to add support to this much needed feature request.
Not to bash Photoshop (because it's awesome) but I feel like photoshop is looked at by Adobe primarily as a photo editing/retouching tool, and then a UI design tool second.
Overlooking this 'Multiple layer Effect' request is evidence of this.

Html+Css allows elements to have multiple drop shadows, rgba semi transparent borders etc, and allows us to stack them in any order. We need our deign tool to be able to do the same, and it doesn't.

even stacking layers on top of each other, stacking the effects, has slight pixel multiplies and edge imperfections that doesn't 100% work.

Please Photoshop: a lot of us are using your app to design UI. Please add this feature.
Inspiring
March 29, 2012
Sometimes it sure would be handy if we could just put color overlay in front of gradient overlay (..and such), wouldn't it? 🙂

March 29, 2012
I think everyone has explained this pretty well. I would love multiple layer styles and an adjustable stack order would be fantastic.

I wonder how the existing stack orders were determined?