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Dropping out a white background - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Dropping out a white background
I've saved my changes as Grayscale bulb.tif, found inside the 28_blending folder. I use TIF because I figured by now enough damage has been done with JPEG compression, we don't need to apply anymore. Incidentally, in order to create this horrible, brutal version of this light bulb, I've saved the JPEG image with a Quality setting of 2. So, it was way, way down there. This is not your standard routine everyday average JPEG image, not that you would save anyway. Now we're going to take this image and we're going to introduce it into this composition, and it's going to look absolutely like a million bucks. It's going to blend seamlessly, as you're about to see. Now, I'm looking at that version of Opposite effects.psd that was saved along with the Darken layer Comp. So you can go ahead and click in front of Darken if you want to in order to get the same effect I have. Also, click on the couple bright layer right there to make it active, so that when we introduce the light bulb into 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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