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Blending in the CMYK mode - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Blending in the CMYK mode
In this exercise I'm going to demonstrate another one of the little-known, little-used Blending Options inside of Photoshop. This one allows you to turn layers on and off between channels, and also show you something of a practical application inside of a CMYK image. So I've got this file right here, it's called Knockout.psd. I'm going to make a couple of changes here. I'm going to turn off this dark stars group, so that we're seeing the wrestlers directly against the parchment background. I'm going to double-click on an empty portion of that wrestler's layer, in order to bring up the Blending Options dialog box. If you press dekeKeys, by the way, you can also press Ctrl+Shift+O, Command+Shift+O on the Mac. Notice these Channels check boxes right there. Probably, never used them, but watch what they do. If I turn off Blue, for example, then the image seems to turn kind of bluish on me. If I by contrast go ahead and turn off Red, then that makes the image even more red. Why in the…
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Everything you need to know about blending1m 45s
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Photoshop CS5's blend modes7m 21s
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Cycling between blend modes6m 15s
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Darken and Lighten and their derivatives6m 3s
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The blend mode shortcuts8m 6s
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The Multiply and Burn modes4m 28s
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The Screen and Dodge modes6m
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How opposite blend modes work8m 24s
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Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens5m 23s
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Cleaning up a client's bad art5m 3s
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Dropping out a white background5m 56s
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Blending inside blend modes8m 3s
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Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light6m 26s
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Vivid, Linear, and Pin Light (and Hard Mix)6m 35s
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Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide7m 34s
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Great uses for the Difference mode6m 18s
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Promising uses for the Divide mode9m 6s
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Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity7m
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Blending an inverted layer3m 32s
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The "Fill Opacity Eight"7m 25s
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Making bad blend modes good5m 16s
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Making a knockout layer6m 53s
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Blending in the CMYK mode8m 3s
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Overprinting black text8m 29s
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Using the Luminance slider5m 24s
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Parametric luminance masking6m 20s
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Adjusting the behavior of luminance effects10m 8s
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