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Colorizing with blend modes and Opacity

Colorizing with blend modes and Opacity - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced

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Colorizing with blend modes and Opacity

All right gang, in this final exercise of the chapter I'm going to show you yet another way to modify your Gradient Map. This time not by meticulously editing color stops but rather by taking something that's more or less in keeping with what you want. And then blending it in with that black-and-white composite using a combination of Blend mode and Opacity. The process goes more quickly but you have to wrap your mind around it a little bit as well. So I've saved my changes as Subtle ski resort.psd because after all we've applied a more subtle colorization effect. I am going to go and switch, inside the Adjustments panel, I am going to switch back from this subtle 15th gradient that we've created Low sat complement back to Complementary VY in order to reapply that garish effect that we had before. Let's try to make it work as opposed to editing every single color stop let's just work here inside the Layers panel. I'll go ahead and collapse the Adjustments panel for a moment by…

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