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  Blend Mode Basics – Part 1

  595 readersFirst and foremost, I’d like to thank TipSquirrel.com for asking me to come back and present another series of tutorials for you!  [Welcome back Mike! (TS)]   For the next several weeks, I’ll be working through some of the weird and mysterious capabilities of Photoshop: the blending modes. We’ll see how they can be applied to layers

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  Use Selective Colors to change the color of a photo

  363 readersThis is the original photo I shoot in he morning in Hawaii, there was a lot of clouds and the sun was interacting with the sky very nicely. I wanted to try to mess with the color of the sky and cloud to give it a completely different feeling so I used the Selective Color

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  Dark II; Photoshop’s Layer Blend Modes

  413 readersOk, here’s the deal: There’s more than one way to do 99.9% of anything you do in Photoshop. I think there may be only one way of turning it on and off, I could be wrong. It’s my belief, speaking for myself, of course that, since tutorials are meant to teach, that more than just

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  Photoshop Blend Mode Basics – Part 3

  608 readersBy Mike Hoffman Thank you all for welcoming me back to TipSquirrel.com! This week, we’re going to continue our exploration of blend modes in Photoshop. In the past two installments, we reviewed layer blend modes, and looked at some examples of what the “Screen” and the “Multiply” blend modes can do for us. This week, we’ll

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  Image alignment and analysis with Difference Blending

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  How To Create an Ultra-Realistic Cracked Head Effect

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  Photoshop Blend Modes Part 5

  526 readersMonday means Mike Hoffman. Here he continues his tour of Photoshop’s Blend Mode  This week, we’ll continue our exploration of practical uses of the Overlay blending mode in Photoshop. Recall from our discussion last week that Overlay is a “contrast” blend mode, and we will be using it in today’s examples to sharpen images. Recall also,

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  Lightening A Dark Photo

  1457 readersDo you have any photos in your collection that are very dark? That doesn’t mean they’re a lost cause! Here’s just one way to lighten them up! For this method, we’ll employ one of my favorite tools, the good old Curves Adjustment. Bringing your dark photo into Photoshop, duplicate the background layer (Ctrl or Cmd