From the course: Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures
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Blending modes for high-key images
From the course: Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures
Blending modes for high-key images
- [Instructor] High key images, these are bright images usually with white or mostly white backgrounds, are naturals to place on a background file. Images with white backgrounds themselves can look stark by themselves, but can become spectacular and subtle once they've been added to a background. Essentially, the white space in the background doesn't add anything to the image so one's not losing the context of the image when you put it on a background. Photoshop blending modes make adding a high key image to a background easy. The best backgrounds for a high key image are usually light toned and fairly subtle. When you look at the images I have open in Photoshop, you'll see an image of poppies and a fairly light toned background created from a scan of a piece of papyrus I found in an arts supply store. By the way, your Photoshop may not look like my Photoshop and that's fine. There are many ways to configure Photoshop. I do wanna point one thing about my Photoshop configuration out to…
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