In this exercise, I am going to show you how to work with that Blend If Option,…that's located just above the slider bars.…What it does is, it allows you to employ the slider bars based on the contents…of specific color channels, which gives you more control over what you're doing,…but it's little hard to wrap your mind around the results.…I will walk you through it here.…The idea let's say, is that I'm pretty happy with what I've been able to achieve…here in this file that I'm now calling Electric storm.psd.…However, I can't did get beyond the fact that we've got these kind of sort of…peach colored halos around each one of the lighting bolts.…
It's great that they're nice and fuzzy.…But why are they peach colored?…Except for the fact, they're coming out of kind of a peachy cloud that just…doesn't really make that much sense.…What I prefer to do is create a cleaner effect like this one here, where the…lighting bolts are more colored neutral.…I can do that with a little bit of more work, using that Blend If option.…
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11/28/2011- Assembling dynamic Dissolve effects
- Filling and stroking with Behind and Clear
- Cleaning up and compositing scanned line art
- Understanding the darken, lighten, and contrast modes
- Refining a mask with Multiply and Screen
- Creating a glowing, soft-focus effect
- Blending images with textures
- Comparing two seemingly identical images
- Creating type that inverts everything behind it
- Colorizing artwork with layers
- Achieving greater control with the Blend If option
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 43s
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1. The Power of Blending
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When in doubt, blend2m 20s
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27 blend modes, 6 groups4m 23s
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Opacity vs. Fill Opacity4m 41s
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The "Fill Opacity Eight"4m 59s
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Blending adjustment layers4m 43s
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2. The Revelation of Blending Math
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Contrast mode formulas7m 28s
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3. The Normal Modes
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4. The Darken Modes
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Darken vs. Darker Color4m 25s
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The Multiply and Burn modes6m 27s
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Cleaning up scanned line art7m 30s
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Colorizing comped line art5m 15s
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Masking with a darken mode3m 59s
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5. The Lighten Modes
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Lighten vs. Lighter Color2m 29s
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The Screen and Dodge modes4m 35s
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Making dark line art bright5m 11s
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Refine, filter, and blend6m 39s
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6. The Contrast Modes
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The amazing Hard Mix mode3m 51s
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Turning flesh into stone4m 48s
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7. The Inversion and Cancelation Modes
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8. The Component (HSL) Modes
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9. The Luminance Sliders
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Conclusion
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