From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Dressing up a composition with effects - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Dressing up a composition with effects
I've gone ahead and saved down my progress as Base layers.psd found inside the 08_selections folder. So called, because we have all of our central layers in place. The beam layer is active. I'm going to deselect it, because we don't need the selection outline anymore. So, I'll press Ctrl+D or Command+D on the Mac. I'll also press Ctrl+Semicolon or Command+ Semicolon to hide that central guideline. Now, we need to turn this layer of blurry orange into something that actually resembles a beam of light. We're going to do that by adding a blend mode and a layer effect. Now, we're getting way beyond ourselves. We won't be approaching these two topics until the advanced portion of the series. But I do want to give you an early sense of what's going on. So, I'm going to switch back to the Rectangular Marquee tool by pressing the M key. Then I'm going to change the blend mode associated with the active layer, by going up to this Normal pop-up menu, click on it. I'll change the blend mode to…
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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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