From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes

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Stacking layers and using stack modes

Stacking layers and using stack modes - Photoshop Tutorial

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Stacking layers and using stack modes

- Another cool technique with Smart Objects is the ability to use stacking modes. This means that several photos can be combined. Usually, it's several images that are from a locked-off tripod, allowing you to composite data together, but there are creative uses as well. Let's see how we can use stacking modes to create new composite images. Another way of working with documents and blending modes is to use a Stack. This allows you to choose File, Scripts, and then Load Files into Stack. Now you can browse and select several images. In this case, let me grab several different shots from a sunset. You can see here that these were taken at different times as the lighting conditions changed in the desert, but from a locked-off tripod. Now when I click Open, these are loaded into the dialog box and I can tell it to align the objects if I'm concerned about vibration. In this case, I was on a solid tripod, so I'm not, but I am gonna tell it to automatically create a Smart Object out of all…

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