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Correcting contrast with the Overlay blend mode

Correcting contrast with the Overlay blend mode - Photoshop Tutorial

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Correcting contrast with the Overlay blend mode

- In this movie we'll increase the contrast of this image, which it obviously needs, using a combination of a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer along with a Contrast Blend Mode. Now the easiest way to create a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer is to drop down to this little black-white icon at the bottom of the Layers panel, and then choose Brightness/Contrast. But a lot of these are so great that I come to them over and over again, which is why I've created some keyboard shortcuts for them. To see what those shortcuts look like, I'll go ahead and escape out here. I'll go up to the Layer menu and choose New Adjustment Layer. You can see that I have a handful of keyboard shortcuts here, all of which involve Control and Shift here on a PC, or Command and Shift on a Mac, along with another character. So we have Control Shift / for Brightness/Contrast, which I think makes sense because there's a slash in the command name. We have Control Shift L, or Command Shift L on a Mac, for…

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