From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Everything you need to know about blending - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Everything you need to know about blending
This chapter is about Blend modes and Photoshop's other advanced Blending options. Like the Opacity value, a Blend mode makes the active layer translucent, so you can see through it, to the layers below. The difference is that each and every Blend mode produces a unique translucency effect. Many of the effects have real-world analogies. Others are altogether otherworldly, which makes them as a bunch incredibly useful. Plus, they're easy to apply. They work almost instantaneously, and they're parametric. Meaning, they're temporary. You can switch them out any time you like. But Blend modes are hardly intuitive. There are a staggering number of them, 27 in the Layers panel alone. They have obscure names that give you no idea what they do. If you try applying them sequentially, they produce a bewildering array of effects, none of which appear to be remotely what you're looking for. In other words, it's almost impossible to improvise your way through them, which is obviously why I'm here.…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
Everything you need to know about blending1m 45s
-
Photoshop CS5's blend modes7m 21s
-
Cycling between blend modes6m 15s
-
Darken and Lighten and their derivatives6m 3s
-
The blend mode shortcuts8m 6s
-
The Multiply and Burn modes4m 28s
-
The Screen and Dodge modes6m
-
How opposite blend modes work8m 24s
-
Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens5m 23s
-
Cleaning up a client's bad art5m 3s
-
Dropping out a white background5m 56s
-
Blending inside blend modes8m 3s
-
Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light6m 26s
-
Vivid, Linear, and Pin Light (and Hard Mix)6m 35s
-
Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide7m 34s
-
Great uses for the Difference mode6m 18s
-
Promising uses for the Divide mode9m 6s
-
Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity7m
-
Blending an inverted layer3m 32s
-
The "Fill Opacity Eight"7m 25s
-
Making bad blend modes good5m 16s
-
Making a knockout layer6m 53s
-
Blending in the CMYK mode8m 3s
-
Overprinting black text8m 29s
-
Using the Luminance slider5m 24s
-
Parametric luminance masking6m 20s
-
Adjusting the behavior of luminance effects10m 8s
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-