From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
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Using blending modes and adjustment layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
Using blending modes and adjustment layers
- Besides using an adjustment layer and a mask, one of the most overlooked options is the ability to use blending modes. Changing the blending mode for an adjustment layer completely changes how it's applied. Sometimes you get very creative results, sometimes unexpected results. But what I find is that by understanding blending modes, you can further refine the adjustment layer and often unlock incredible results. Let's take a look at another example with this recoloring. Now I've opened up a slightly different version with the adjustment layer here and you see it's applying to the entire image. Now previously, we went to great efforts to remove it from things like the logo. But instead of just applying this globally, one of the other things that's often overlooked about adjustment layers is that they have blending modes. Blending modes change how layers interact. So in this case, a mode like darken does just that, it makes it quite a bit darker. Or lighten is going to apply a…
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What is an adjustment layer and when should you use one?3m 23s
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Clipping an adjustment layer to a single layer3m 9s
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Using layer masks and adjustment layers8m 37s
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Using blending modes and adjustment layers4m 15s
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Organizing adjustment layers by grouping3m 38s
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Using advanced blending options4m 33s
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