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Using the Luminance slider - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Using the Luminance slider
In this exercise I'm going to introduce you to the final blending options inside of Photoshop and those are the Luminance-exclusion slider bars. Now, what they allow you to do is drop out or force through the display of colors inside of your layers based on their luminance levels. We'll be working inside this file that's called Lunar madness.psd. It features this moon image which I've colorized but originally it came to us from David Woods and then we also have this kind of lightning ball rendering with these sparks here and that comes to us from Arga, both of the Fotolia Image library. I'm going to go ahead and turn the lightning ball layer off for now. We are going to be ultimately blending it with the moon but before we do that, I want to demonstrate how these options work. So I'm going to turn on the gradient layer which is just the linear gradient going from black to white and back to black again. I'll go ahead and double-click in an empty portion of this layer to bring up 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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