Just to demonstrate that Photoshop is really taking the darker value for each pixel, I?ll switch up the layers so that the rose layer is on top, set to Darken Mode. The end result looks exactly the same!
Photoshop has what it calls ?Blending Modes.? In the Layers palette, these options show up in the drop-down that is usually set to ?Normal.? You can also set the blending mode (and access more options) by going to the Layer Style dialog box.
For my practical application, I?ll use Vivid Light mode to overlay text on top of other images. Because Vivid Light doesn?t really ?show? the blend layer, but just uses the blend layer to affect the colors of the base layer, the text will look more like it?s ?part? of the picture, as opposed to being a slightly transparent layer on top of a picture.
To give you a better idea of how Blending options can be used, i've chosen to take you through a recent project I did for Jeffrey Lynch Development, Ltd. Inspired by the ancient Yin & Yang symbol, Jeffrey Lynch requested a simplistic icon to be used as a company logo. The reason, this examble is so well suited to illustrate the power of blending options, is because of it's simplicity and most importantly the fact that it's only made up of 3 handdrawn vector layers!
The Healing brushes as well as the Blur, Sharpen and Smudge tools all have some choices for alternatives modes and can be used for creative effects. Blending Modes and Blending Options are extremely useful and versatile functions and it takes a while to understand their full potential. Photoshop In A Day has many more examples of the use of Blending Modes. Back to the top of the Blending modes page
Finally, we have the Composite group, also known as the HSL group, which stands for "Hue, Saturation and Luminosity", which just happen to be the names of three of the four blend modes included in this final group, along with the "Color" mode. The blend modes in this group all have something to do with either the color or luminosity (lightness) values in the layer, and the Color and Luminosity modes make up the last of the five essential blend modes you need to know when it comes to editing photos and images in Photoshop.
Each smart filter in Photoshop CS3 comes with its own blend mode and opacity settings, which are completely independent of the blend mode and opacity settings of the smart object to which it's been applied, and also completely independent of any other smart filter(s) you've applied to the object. In this third tutorial, we'll look at how to access those smart filter blend mode and opacity settings inside Photoshop CS3.
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to take a look at some of Photoshop's more advanced blending options, specifically the "Blend If" sliders. Don't let the word "advanced" scare you off, they're really very easy to use and lots of fun, and not only can they give you much better blending results than anything you could get using the standard layer blend modes, they also give you a lot more control.
The Blend Mode and Opacity Finally, we have the Blending and Opacity options, which are directly below the target image information. The Blending option is where we tell Photoshop how we want to blend the source image with the target image by choosing any of the blend modes from the drop-down list, while the Opacity option allows us to fine-tune our blending effect if needed by adjusting the opacity of the source image. Both of these options are the same as what you'd find at the top of the Layers palette. In fact, most of the blend modes you'd find in the Layers palette are here in the Apply Image dialog box, along with a couple of new ones ("Add" and "Subtract"). My blend mode is currently set to "Overlay":
In this Adobe Photoshop Elements tutorial, we're going to learn how to take a couple of photos and blend them together like a Hollywood movie poster. Blending photos together is very easy to do in the full version of Photoshop thanks to layer masks, which unfortunately are not available to us in Photoshop Elements, but there's ways around that, as we'll see.
In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to blend photos together like a Hollywood movie poster. Blending photos is easy to do in Photoshop thanks to layer masks, yet finding two photos with similar colors isn't always so easy, and you end up with a photo effect that doesn't really seem to look right because the colors don't match.
NOTE There is no Clear blending mode for layers; as is found in the 'Stroke' filter for instance. In addition, the Color Dodge, Color Burn, Darken, Lighten, Difference, and Exclusion modes are unavailable for Lab images.
Here???s the image we???ll need to add the other image to. To use these examples, right-click each and save the images to your computer and open them both in Photoshop.
Title: Use blending technique to create Simple Fireball Description: I will teach today some options to create a fireball. You will also learn how to use distort filter.
Use this article as reference or sort of like a Photoshop Cheat Sheet. I encourage you to discover the power of blending modes by yourself. Take two images and blend them together. Vary the layer opacities and try different blending modes on top of each other. The possibilities are endless.
After I am done painting over the liquid, I will select multiply from the blending mode menu in the �Layers� window, located just under the �Layers� tab.
Create a new layer, and position a picture of a face to the right. I used the file below. Now we need to delete the excess background from the portrait. Click on the "magic wand" tool on your toolbar, and choose a tolerance of 30. Click on the gray portion of the photo, and delete it.
Am I going to technically describe how with blending modes, one layers light qualities are mixed with the qualities of the layer beneath? No. This is Photoshop Design; we're concerned with the practical application. (Maybe after I get my ACE certification I'll cringe at this). But you still need to know an idea of how they work. Even the Dream Team members will say that Ben Willmore and maybe Peter Bauer (of Adobe) are the only ones who truly understand them.
So to blend one image into another, have your two layers on one document and simply click on the layer mask icon to add a layer mask. Now grab your gradient tool on the right settings and swipe across one of the layers (make sure the layer mask icon is selected in the palette). The shorter your swipe, the tighter the fade will be and the longer your stroke, the smoother a transition of the blend you will have.
We are going to learn how to create pipes and then blend them together. In other words we are going to be building a pipe with another pipe sticking out of it as if it had been molded as one unit.
Now that you have both images combined into one document, click on the very most top layer (this will be the top image, double click on the image in the layers pallet.) This will open up the layers style but with a twist it will go to the main blending options. Do you see down in the blending options at the bottom there are two bars?
3. Now to begin blending the render(image) you will need to grab the Lasso Tool and set it to the following settings, then out line the render like so...
Step 5: Then, do a selection right where the borders on the two images are. Press "del" on the keyboard. If you find there is a trace of both images not blending, just move the marquee around and press del again.
3. Click the layer mask button. This will create a new layer mask. When you paint black into the mask it allows the image underneath to show through. Where it is white, the underlying layer will be hidden.
Next, at the 'Blending Options' control panel, move down towards the 'BlendIf' 'This Layer' option, and adjust the far right upward arrow control slider to the left. Keep nudging(by dragging it) it until you can see that the white background in the canvas view disappears.
Notice the partial overlapping of the two pictures. This allows us to attach and blend them easier. It is also possible to so something similar using non-overlapping photos, it's just longer and more annoying.
2. Next put each picure on its own layer puting the picture u want blending on the top. Then using the rectangle marguee tool on the top layer, make a rectangle selection of what u want blended. Here is whati choose.
That is really all it takes. I personally feel that the major portion of this is placement. Once you have a good placement, the blending somewhat takes care of itself. You can use the above techniques to further drive the image as you see fit. If I was to work with the image further, I would work on the front 2 teeth and add some additional lighting as they seem out of place. However, this tutorial is to give you the basic blending idea.
Open the second photo (the one you want to composite with your background photo). Get the Move tool (V) and drag this photo on top of your background photo (as shown here). It's on its own layer, so drag it a bit over to the right so it extends off the edge of the document (basically, just position it like you see here). You'll see a hard edge where the tachometer photo ends, and that's what we're going to work on smoothly blending these two photos together so you don't see that hard edge just a smooth, gradual blending of the two images.
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5. To make the eye more vivid, add a layer mask on Eye Copy. Take a black brush, flow and opacity about 50-60% and brush *In the mask* the iris, making sure the pupil is avoided.
4. To make the blending process easier, you can nudge (Down Arrow) one of the images down a bit. This will help in determining the length that the gradient line will be.
Before you start in Photoshop, you have to create the files so that each has a good exposure for a specific part of the image. For the files to align properly, it's best to be on a tripod. Although handheld, rapid-fire, auto-exposure bracketing may work in some cases, I prefer the tripod approach. The tripod is definitely a must for long exposures, such as the photos in this example, which had shutter speeds of 13 and 25 seconds. I used a 5-stop, solid, neutral-density filter to force a long exposure time that would totally blur the surf.
Create a new layer, and position a picture of a face to the right. I used the file below. Now we need to delete the excess background from the portrait. Click on the "magic wand" tool on your toolbar, and choose a tolerance of 30. Click on the gray portion of the photo, and delete it.
In this tutorial you will be able to create Screen Blending with 2 images that can make a nice picture into something More effective in adobe photoshop.
Then bring the opacity back to 100% by hitting 0. Then in the layers palette hold shift and select both layers. Make sure the background to both is blue showing it is selected. Then go to Edit > Auto-Blend Layers. Photoshop does some magic and you have blended your images.
Put the bottom layer on overlay. When using blending modes, you will always get slightly different results depending on your situations because the b modes mix the existing light with the layer and the (visible) layer(s) beneath it.
Blending images has always been very cool for headers or sigs. When you blend images into each other you actually make sure they overlay each other first and then make them fade into each other. This technique is being used very often. Below you see an image with 3 girls who have been blended together vert easily!
Blending modes define how layers, fills, strokes, fades and paths blend. You can easily cycle through the blending modes in the layer window by pressing "Shift++" or "Shift+-" buttons or by highlighting a blend mode and pressing the "Up" or "Down" buttons. Here is a list of blending modes with a description and examples of each blending mode.
When two or more colors overlap in an image you can get one of two results. The top color can block the lower color or the two colors can interact. Photoshop's blending modes allow us to control the interaction.
I'm 16. Well, I started doing websites in 6th grade, because the students in my grade weren't exactly organized, and had trouble keeping track of what we had to do. That's when I started making websites. In my July vacations, I decided to make another website, educating new Photoshop users to the program, and that's how StartPhotoshop.com originated. I hope you find my tutorials useful, thanks!
One day, as if by magic, I happened upon a curious mistake: whilst using blend modes, I observed that the blend mode multiply effectively knocked out the white pixels in my logo, giving me great results on pure black and white logos.I could now position the logo on gradients, textures- you name it!
6. The Screen blend mode has taken the pixels from both layers and compared them: it then inverted their values, and multiplied them, creating lighter colours for the result. Some areas (the "rusty" parts of the base layer) resulted in darker tones, so part of the base layer shows through, whilst lifgter parts are "screened" white - the result of two light colours being multiplied.
This is the way I usually do the blending in my photomanipulated images. I recommend to take time to practices, applying different effects to the layers and the masks. Is amazing the things you can do when you know how to use masks. If you want to see the results of my "layers work" you can take a look at my art section or here. Peace out and God Bless!
13. Now your image should be finished with a final touched-up color. If you are having problems make sure the Brightness/Contrast and Color Balance Layers are on top of every layer, like so:
Starting to look good right? Now duplicate the stock or the image one last time and set it to Screen or Overlay which ever looks nicer and make sure the Opacity is 100% (Also depending on your background):
2. Start off with a new document (mine 341x313) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then hit the 'X' key to reverse it to White, then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 388x388 pixels)
2. Start off with a new document (mine 366x364) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 319x319 pixels)
2. Start off with a new document (mine 366x364) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 319x319 pixels)
2. Start off with a new document (mine 341x313) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then hit the 'X' key to reverse it to White, then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 388x388 pixels)
2. Start off with a new document (mine 366x364) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 319x319 pixels)
2. Start off with a new document (mine 366x364) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 319x319 pixels)
2. Start off with a new document (mine 366x364) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 319x319 pixels)
The Screen blending mode is available with all the other blending modes on the layers window. Screen blending mode brightens the underlying layers depending on how bright the screened layer's pixels are. If the screened pixel is black, it will look completely transparent. A white pixel will be white. A screened black layer can be used to add lens flares and other bright things to a picture with the option to remove, filter or fade them.
Next, at the 'Blending Options' control panel, move down towards the 'BlendIf' 'This Layer' option, and adjust the far right upward arrow control slider to the left. Keep nudging(by dragging it) it until you can see that the white background in the canvas view disappears.
You can find the blending modes in the layers window. It's always nice to try them all out, because not every layer needs the same blending mode. Here you can see the fairy without and with blending modes. You have to agree, it looks ten times better with... The sources used in this tutorial are - http://eyefeather-stock.deviantart.com/art/yellow-lift-off-84877192 - http://eyefeather-stock.deviantart.com/art/yellow-sun-dress-profile-84871350 - http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id;=1018484 - http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id;=820710
Now our signature is almost done, we only have to add a border and add some balance layers to it. After that we sharpen our signature. Lets start by adding some balance layers to our signature, you can find them here: The options that have a red circle around them are the options I almost always use. Im not going to help you with this step, just play around and add some contrast / colors to it untill you think it looks nice. Here is what I got: before: after: Now its time to add a nice border around it. First create a new layer on top of all your other layers, then press ctrl+a to select the entire canvas. Then go to edit > stroke and play around with the settings until you think it looks nice. I then took out my erasor tool and removed the vertical borders, because I didnt really liked them: And finally our last step is to sharpen our signature one time. To do this first create a new layer on top of all other layers and go to image > apply image. Leave all settings on default and press ok. Then with that layer selected go to filter > sharpen > sharpen. before: after: And now you have finished your signature, in this tutorial you have learned: -how to create a nice looking background without brushes -how to blend your render -how to add simple, but good looking text -how to improve your signature by adding a border and sharpening it Tutorial and Signature made by JaspervD for sigtutorials.com, you are not allowed to repost without permission!
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Blending modes are split into 6 different sections. The Basic ones replace the base pixels, the Darken ones darken the base pixels, the Lighten ones lighten them, the Contrast ones increase or decrease overall contrast, the Comparative ones invert the base colour and the HSL modes apply a specific colour component. Some blending modes need a bit of opacity tweaking in order to get the best effect. As with a lot of Photoshop’s options, experimentation is the only real way to get a thorough understanding.
So I have to admit that Color Dodge mode is one that I?ve never used in an actual application before. But apparently a few other people in Google-world have used Color Dodge mode for lots of different purposes. A lot of people will use Color Dodge layers when making high-tech or grunge-style abstract images. But there were two other suggestions that I found interesting?
Color Mode is pretty close to Hue Mode, so let?s look at Hue Mode again to get rid of any confusion. Hue Mode keeps the brightness and satuation of the base color but applies the hue of the blend layer. Color Mode keeps the brightness of the base color and applies both the hue and saturation of the blend color.
2. A layer with a blending mode specified will "blend" with all other colors from layers underneath it. We call those original layer colors the "base colors." The colors on the top layer (with the blending mode selected) is called the "blend colors." The result - what you see as a result of the "blending" - is called the "result color."
The Color Blend Mode in Photoshop takes the "grey levels" of the base color and colors them with the blend color: Color Blend Mode: Creates a result color with the luminance of the base color and the hue and saturation of the blend color. This preserves the gray levels in the image and is useful for coloring monochrome images and for tinting color images.
You may have caught on by now that Photoshop has "opposite" blend modes: Darken vs. Lighten, Multiply vs. Screen, and Color or Linear Burn vs. Color or Linear Dodge. So the definition in Photoshop Help for Color Dodge may sound eerily familiar: Color Dodge: Looks at the color information in each channel and brightens the base color to reflect the blend color by decreasing the contrast. Blending with black produces no change.
When I layer the two images on top of each other and set the top layer to the Darken mode, you'll notice that the "darker" values show from each layer.
You can create all sorts of light effects, glows, stars and many more using the Color Dodge. But remember it won't work over black backgrounds, so for example if you want to make it work over black you will have to create another layer between The color dodge layer and the black layer with another color. Also if you want to try different colors, just create another layer on top of the others using the Overlay Blend Mode, but that's for another Quick Tips.
Add some punch to your photo by adding new layers and using the brush tools with a combination of blending modes to bring out detail and brighten things up.
This tutorial will show you how to overlay a flag image onto an uneven surface to create the effect of wrinkled flag; includes the use of a hard light layer mode.
This video tutorial shows you how to align two photos on top of one another so you can take parts from each if needed; it also discusses how to blend panoramas together from various angles.
Today I am going to do a very simple but very useful tutorial. It is about the blending option. Blending option is a very important component in PS and if you can get use to it well then you can make life easy when you doing graphic design. I choose to use text for this tutorial and you may also be able to use this technique in other object such as the button, logo and etc. let's start now.
Next, Right Click (Mac:Ctrl + Click) on the new '3d' Type Layer in the Layers Palette and choose Blending Options from the context list, as captured below.
Ok now lets add some cool effects before we blend. Now go and right click on your text layer and go to blending options. Once in there we will click drop shadow/outer glow/inner glow/bevel and emboss/ and contour. Now just click ok and you will get something like this.
Duplicate the layer and remove all effects in the new layer. Set the text color white (#FFFFFF). Rasterize the new layer and select Rectangular Marquee Tool in the Tools Tab. Select an area like in the next picture and Select > Feather - Feather Radius: 5 pixels and delete the selected area. The result should be this:
Blending Two Images Seamlessly with Photoshop Category: Photoshop Let's say you need add an image to another one, but it needs to look seamless. The image we'll be adding to the other needs to have the same angle and texture of the other one. We can use the lens distortion tool and a layer blending mode for this example, and it's also a fun way to learn the lens distortion tool and layer blending modes. Written by Chad Neuman Views:
Title: Photoshop free tutorial technique lesson for making texture image and blend images Great photoshop tutorial for web designers to learn new techniques and design lesson for making texture image and blend images
Blending Images One of the coolest things about Photoshop is the way it allows us to take multiple images and combine them into one composite or collage. Rather than using the digital equivalent of scissors and glue, Photoshop lets us blending images together in beautiful and creative ways. There are a variety of techniques for blending images. We'll start with a look at one of the simplest. Open a pair of images that you'd like to join. We'll use a couple of outdoor shots. You should make sure that the color mode of the documents matches and, as in this example, the bit depth. (Both are adjusted with the menu command Image> Mode.) The next step is to put them into one document. Since they're different sizes, we could use the menu command Image> Image Size to resample one or the other. However, since we're working at low resolution, we'll simply scale when ready. Copying an image from one document to another is quite easy ? simply drag from the Layers palette of the source document onto the window of the second image. If the source image has multiple layers, they can be dragged one at a time or the image can be flattened first. Holding down the Shift key while the mouse button is released will center the dragged layer in the destination document. Once the layer is copied, the original source document can be closed. In the destination image, our work image, we now have two layers. As you can see by the bounding box, the difference in image size is considerable. (Note that "image size" refers to the pixel dimensions of an image, not the print size. When you look in the Image Size dialog box, think in terms of the pixel dimensions at the top section, not the print dimensions in the lower part.) Command-T/Control-T puts us in Free Transform mode, which allows easy resizing of the image. (Make sure that the new layer is the active layer in the Layers palette.) Holding down the Option/Alt key allows us to resize with the image growing in all directions from the "point of origin," that target-shaped symbol in the center of the image. (The point of origin can be moved anywhere inside or outside the bounding box to change the spot from which you transform.) Adding the Shift key prevents distortion while resizing by constraining the width-height ratio of the image while you drag. In Free Transform mode, you can also reposition an image by clicking within the bounding box and dragging. Press Return/Enter when you've scaled and moved as desired. We can also scale and ...
To start with open up two images roughly about the same size. They do not have to be pixel perfect. Then get the images in the same document. The images which I have used were taken from istockphoto.com but you can find free sites what offer images like sxc.hu.
Step 1: Open two images in photoshop. One a background(img1), and another, the foreground (img2). Make sure that both images are almost the same size, if not, resize.
2. Start off with a new document (mine 366x364) , next hit the 'D' key on your keyboard to set the foreground to 'Black', then from the 'Toolbar' choose the 'Ellipse Tool' and draw (hold the 'Shift' key to constrain to proportion) an ellipse. (Size of my Ellipse is 319x319 pixels) NOTE: To get the actual size of your shape, Ctrl + click on that particular layer in the 'Layers Palette' to select it. Then go 'Window/Info' and under the 'Info' tab check the actual 'W: & H:' values to see if they resemble my values. I only stress this point becuase the a big difference in your values at this stage will produce a different result once you apply the different styles. So try to get close! If you an exact match, then once you have drawn your shape, hit the 'T' key to select the 'Transform Tool'. With the 'Info Panel' still open, click on a corner Transform point and scale in the direction until those values in the 'Info Panel' match 319x319.
Just to demonstrate that Photoshop is really taking the darker value for each pixel, I?ll switch up the layers so that the rose layer is on top, set to Darken Mode. The end result looks exactly the same!
Photoshop has what it calls ?Blending Modes.? In the Layers palette, these options show up in the drop-down that is usually set to ?Normal.? You can also set the blending mode (and access more options) by going to the Layer Style dialog box.
For my practical application, I?ll use Vivid Light mode to overlay text on top of other images. Because Vivid Light doesn?t really ?show? the blend layer, but just uses the blend layer to affect the colors of the base layer, the text will look more like it?s ?part? of the picture, as opposed to being a slightly transparent layer on top of a picture.
To give you a better idea of how Blending options can be used, i've chosen to take you through a recent project I did for Jeffrey Lynch Development, Ltd. Inspired by the ancient Yin & Yang symbol, Jeffrey Lynch requested a simplistic icon to be used as a company logo. The reason, this examble is so well suited to illustrate the power of blending options, is because of it's simplicity and most importantly the fact that it's only made up of 3 handdrawn vector layers!
The Healing brushes as well as the Blur, Sharpen and Smudge tools all have some choices for alternatives modes and can be used for creative effects. Blending Modes and Blending Options are extremely useful and versatile functions and it takes a while to understand their full potential. Photoshop In A Day has many more examples of the use of Blending Modes. Back to the top of the Blending modes page
Finally, we have the Composite group, also known as the HSL group, which stands for "Hue, Saturation and Luminosity", which just happen to be the names of three of the four blend modes included in this final group, along with the "Color" mode. The blend modes in this group all have something to do with either the color or luminosity (lightness) values in the layer, and the Color and Luminosity modes make up the last of the five essential blend modes you need to know when it comes to editing photos and images in Photoshop.
Each smart filter in Photoshop CS3 comes with its own blend mode and opacity settings, which are completely independent of the blend mode and opacity settings of the smart object to which it's been applied, and also completely independent of any other smart filter(s) you've applied to the object. In this third tutorial, we'll look at how to access those smart filter blend mode and opacity settings inside Photoshop CS3.
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to take a look at some of Photoshop's more advanced blending options, specifically the "Blend If" sliders. Don't let the word "advanced" scare you off, they're really very easy to use and lots of fun, and not only can they give you much better blending results than anything you could get using the standard layer blend modes, they also give you a lot more control.
The Blend Mode and Opacity Finally, we have the Blending and Opacity options, which are directly below the target image information. The Blending option is where we tell Photoshop how we want to blend the source image with the target image by choosing any of the blend modes from the drop-down list, while the Opacity option allows us to fine-tune our blending effect if needed by adjusting the opacity of the source image. Both of these options are the same as what you'd find at the top of the Layers palette. In fact, most of the blend modes you'd find in the Layers palette are here in the Apply Image dialog box, along with a couple of new ones ("Add" and "Subtract"). My blend mode is currently set to "Overlay":
In this Adobe Photoshop Elements tutorial, we're going to learn how to take a couple of photos and blend them together like a Hollywood movie poster. Blending photos together is very easy to do in the full version of Photoshop thanks to layer masks, which unfortunately are not available to us in Photoshop Elements, but there's ways around that, as we'll see.
In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to blend photos together like a Hollywood movie poster. Blending photos is easy to do in Photoshop thanks to layer masks, yet finding two photos with similar colors isn't always so easy, and you end up with a photo effect that doesn't really seem to look right because the colors don't match.
NOTE There is no Clear blending mode for layers; as is found in the 'Stroke' filter for instance. In addition, the Color Dodge, Color Burn, Darken, Lighten, Difference, and Exclusion modes are unavailable for Lab images.
Here???s the image we???ll need to add the other image to. To use these examples, right-click each and save the images to your computer and open them both in Photoshop.
2. Click on the Gradient Tool and then make sure that the colors you are using are black and white.
Title: Use blending technique to create Simple Fireball Description: I will teach today some options to create a fireball. You will also learn how to use distort filter.
Thanks so much for tis tutorial, I'm looking for it for a long time already to do a nice blending work for my photos. Thanks again!
Next, at the 'Blending Options' control panel, move down towards the 'BlendIf' 'This Layer' option, and adjust the far right upward arrow control slider to the left. Keep nudging(by dragging it) it until you can see that the white background in the canvas view disappears.
You can find the blending modes in the layers window. It's always nice to try them all out, because not every layer needs the same blending mode. Here you can see the fairy without and with blending modes. You have to agree, it looks ten times better with... The sources used in this tutorial are - http://eyefeather-stock.deviantart.com/art/yellow-lift-off-84877192 - http://eyefeather-stock.deviantart.com/art/yellow-sun-dress-profile-84871350 - http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id;=1018484 - http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id;=820710
To create a blending option to image, text or layers go to the bottom of your layers panel and click the icon with a circle and a f on it.
Now our signature is almost done, we only have to add a border and add some balance layers to it. After that we sharpen our signature. Lets start by adding some balance layers to our signature, you can find them here: The options that have a red circle around them are the options I almost always use. Im not going to help you with this step, just play around and add some contrast / colors to it untill you think it looks nice. Here is what I got: before: after: Now its time to add a nice border around it. First create a new layer on top of all your other layers, then press ctrl+a to select the entire canvas. Then go to edit > stroke and play around with the settings until you think it looks nice. I then took out my erasor tool and removed the vertical borders, because I didnt really liked them: And finally our last step is to sharpen our signature one time. To do this first create a new layer on top of all other layers and go to image > apply image. Leave all settings on default and press ok. Then with that layer selected go to filter > sharpen > sharpen. before: after: And now you have finished your signature, in this tutorial you have learned: -how to create a nice looking background without brushes -how to blend your render -how to add simple, but good looking text -how to improve your signature by adding a border and sharpening it Tutorial and Signature made by JaspervD for sigtutorials.com, you are not allowed to repost without permission!
[3]-Now Open New Layer & fill with any color & then go to Blending Options with click on 'f' which is indicating by Hand sign
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Blending modes are split into 6 different sections. The Basic ones replace the base pixels, the Darken ones darken the base pixels, the Lighten ones lighten them, the Contrast ones increase or decrease overall contrast, the Comparative ones invert the base colour and the HSL modes apply a specific colour component. Some blending modes need a bit of opacity tweaking in order to get the best effect. As with a lot of Photoshop’s options, experimentation is the only real way to get a thorough understanding.
So I have to admit that Color Dodge mode is one that I?ve never used in an actual application before. But apparently a few other people in Google-world have used Color Dodge mode for lots of different purposes. A lot of people will use Color Dodge layers when making high-tech or grunge-style abstract images. But there were two other suggestions that I found interesting?
Color Mode is pretty close to Hue Mode, so let?s look at Hue Mode again to get rid of any confusion. Hue Mode keeps the brightness and satuation of the base color but applies the hue of the blend layer. Color Mode keeps the brightness of the base color and applies both the hue and saturation of the blend color.
Blending Two Images Seamlessly with Photoshop Category: Photoshop Let's say you need add an image to another one, but it needs to look seamless. The image we'll be adding to the other needs to have the same angle and texture of the other one. We can use the lens distortion tool and a layer blending mode for this example, and it's also a fun way to learn the lens distortion tool and layer blending modes. Written by Chad Neuman Views:
Title: Photoshop free tutorial technique lesson for making texture image and blend images Great photoshop tutorial for web designers to learn new techniques and design lesson for making texture image and blend images
Blending Images One of the coolest things about Photoshop is the way it allows us to take multiple images and combine them into one composite or collage. Rather than using the digital equivalent of scissors and glue, Photoshop lets us blending images together in beautiful and creative ways. There are a variety of techniques for blending images. We'll start with a look at one of the simplest. Open a pair of images that you'd like to join. We'll use a couple of outdoor shots. You should make sure that the color mode of the documents matches and, as in this example, the bit depth. (Both are adjusted with the menu command Image> Mode.) The next step is to put them into one document. Since they're different sizes, we could use the menu command Image> Image Size to resample one or the other. However, since we're working at low resolution, we'll simply scale when ready. Copying an image from one document to another is quite easy ? simply drag from the Layers palette of the source document onto the window of the second image. If the source image has multiple layers, they can be dragged one at a time or the image can be flattened first. Holding down the Shift key while the mouse button is released will center the dragged layer in the destination document. Once the layer is copied, the original source document can be closed. In the destination image, our work image, we now have two layers. As you can see by the bounding box, the difference in image size is considerable. (Note that "image size" refers to the pixel dimensions of an image, not the print size. When you look in the Image Size dialog box, think in terms of the pixel dimensions at the top section, not the print dimensions in the lower part.) Command-T/Control-T puts us in Free Transform mode, which allows easy resizing of the image. (Make sure that the new layer is the active layer in the Layers palette.) Holding down the Option/Alt key allows us to resize with the image growing in all directions from the "point of origin," that target-shaped symbol in the center of the image. (The point of origin can be moved anywhere inside or outside the bounding box to change the spot from which you transform.) Adding the Shift key prevents distortion while resizing by constraining the width-height ratio of the image while you drag. In Free Transform mode, you can also reposition an image by clicking within the bounding box and dragging. Press Return/Enter when you've scaled and moved as desired. We can also scale and ...
To start with open up two images roughly about the same size. They do not have to be pixel perfect. Then get the images in the same document. The images which I have used were taken from istockphoto.com but you can find free sites what offer images like sxc.hu.
3. Soft Light
Step 1: Open two images in photoshop. One a background(img1), and another, the foreground (img2). Make sure that both images are almost the same size, if not, resize.
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Lets get you following along with me as i go through the different blending modes.