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Parametric luminance masking - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Parametric luminance masking
All right kids, in this exercise we're going to use those Luminance-exclusion slider bars in order to create a special effect. Basically we're going to make this lightning ball right here appear to burst out of the center of the moon. We're going to do so without much in the way of masking, just little tiny masks here and there, but mostly it's going to be blending tricks as you'll see. So I've gone ahead and restored the saved version of Lunar madness.psd. I'm going to turn on the lightning ball layer right there, and I'm going to click on it. Now, I want to keep the light stuff and I want the dark stuff to drop away. So the most logical blend mode to use is going to be Screen because it's your when in doubt lightening mode. So I'll go ahead and choose it and we get this effect here. So already looking pretty darn good; now, I want to be able to identify those tendrils of lightning there a little more accurately. So I want to drop out the darks where this layer is concerned and I'll…
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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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