Newbie photoshop project advice

[Lokister]

Hi Everyone, this is my first photshop post and I have only used photoshop for like a month in my life. I have spent around 7 months in my life trying to learn premiere pro and after effects. I believe the concept of layers is aimilar accross the platforms but I am struggling to learn photoshop. I just started a family youtube channel and was hoping you could take a look at the banner and logo I made for our YouTube homepage, the banner itself is a mess and is like 30+ layers of different stuff and any other advice you have please. Here is the link thanks so much!

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[Ranjisha Sengupta]

Hi @Lokister 

Welcome to the Photoshop community. 

We're glad to know that you have started using Photoshop. 

Adobe Photoshop is a critical tool for designers, web developers, graphic artists, photographers, and creative professionals. It is widely used for image editing, retouching, creating image compositions, website mockups, and adding affects. You can learn it from here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html

The layer concept is quite similar but not exactly same.

To know more about this: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/layer-basics.html

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Happy to help!

Ranjisha

[Lokister]

Hi Ranjisha, thanks for responding and the info. I have attached a screenshot of the banner image if you wouldn't mind taking a look at it. One thing I encountered was sometimes when I use the pen tool to mask I would be able to create a mask and sometimes I wouldn't. Sometimes it would come out as vector mask and sometimes it wouldn't. The mask tool I really like using was the one that pops up to full screen and let's me change the background and use three brush type tools in upper left to eith + or -. The problem is I don't know how to open it all the time when I do have a mask lol. Thanks again for the help.