This week I’m going to be quickly showing you how to save Blending Option settings and use them as styles.

I’m using Photoshop CS4 as ever but this works for all Photoshop Creative Suite editions.

Styles are simply predefined layer Blending Options that can be used to quickly apply a certain style you like, some people use them in tutorials to make it easier for the reader as well.

Styles can be found under Window in the title bar and come with a default selection of pretty awful styles.

Now the simplest way to create your own style is under the Blending Options menu which can be found by right clicking on a non-​​Background layer and choosing Blending Options… (or just double click it).

Now set what you want your style to be, be tasteful though, some more awful drop shadows and embosses are really not what the world needs. Once everything is set just click the New Style… button, give it a name and it will appear in the Styles palette with a little preview of what it does.

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There are other ways of transferring layer styles, you can drag them from layer to layer (Alt + Dragging duplicates the style) or you can right click on the layer and choose to Copy Layer Style or Clear Layer Style.

And there you have it, wasn’t joking when I said this would be a really quick quick look.

That’s all folks.