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Overprinting black text - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Overprinting black text
I've saved my progress as CMYK issues.psd, found inside the 28_blending folder. We are indeed working in the CMYK mode. I've had to fuse together quite a few layers inside of this image in order to make the transitions work. We still have a problem however. Notice this big rectangular area around the light bulb scan, and I'm going to go ahead and twirl-open the lightbulb group right there. That's that sharpie lines item. If I turn it off, you can see that the light bulb's doing fine, and the little burst inside of the light bulb's looking pretty good as well, but those sharpie lines are not faring so well. Now, you might wonder why. They're black, right? So, we had already made the background black, and when you set black to any of those quality lightening modes, whether we're talking about Screen or Color Dodge or Linear Dodge, it's going to drop out and become transparent. And that's true. So, why when I choose Screen does the effect remain? I can still see that area of black. When…
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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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