Clearing Styles

I encourage you to experiment with layer styles. Add several of them to a layer, try tweaking their settings, and see what happens. After a short while, you’ll soon find that manipulating live effects can become addicting. It’s very easy to overdo it. Eventually you’ll reach a point where you just want to start over. Thankfully, the Clear Styles command allows you to delete any applied styles and start fresh.
There are two ways to apply the command:
- In the Layers palette, select the layer containing the styles you’d like to delete. Then choose Clear Layer Style from the Layer --> Layer Style submenu or the pop-up menu (right-click with a two-button mouse, or Control+click on the Mac). As soon as you  apply the command, the effects disappear immediately from the document window, as does the Layer Style icon and list of effects in the Layers palette.
- Click and drag the layer style fx icon from the layer to the trash icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. As soon as you release the mouse button, the layer style effects disappear immediately from the image window and the Layers palette.

Clearing from the Pop-up Menu
Control+click (Mac) or right-click with a two-button mouse on the Layer Style icon in the layer (not at the bottom of the palette) to access the Clear Layer Style command from a pop-up menu.