Photoshop Blending Modes
An Explanation of Photoshop Blend Modes
By Angie Bowen | Stashed in Photoshop Tools, Tutorials
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The Blend Modes specified in the options bar control how pixels in two separate layers interact with and effect each other. It’s helpful to think in terms of the following colors when visualizing a blending mode’s effect:
- The base color is the original color in the bottom layer.
- The blend color is the color being applied by the upper layer.
- The result color is the color resulting from the blend.
I decided to use two different examples for this demonstration. The first gives you an example of a simple photo with a complex and colorful texture while the second gives you a complex photo with a simple texture. This should give you a better visual of exactly what each mode does.
Remember that to get better results you can also adjust the opacity of the upper layer.
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How To Apply Textures To Your Photographs
“Let me start off by saying that I don’t use textures all that often, but there are certainly times where I feel that an image could use just a little something extra. Textures are just another one of those things in digital photography that can be overused and overdone if you’re not careful, and there are certainly right and wrong ways of going about it.” - James Brandon
Texture Overlay on Live & Love Outloud Photoblog
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Scans of old paper, fabric and handwritten notes are among the most common overlay textures. With the help of image editing software programs like Photoshop , using overlay textures during the photo editing process opens up a window of creative image-enhancing possibilities. Layered over your own image, an overlay texture’s effect is adjusted via blend modes and opacity; giving you complete control over the effect that each layer has on the others.
Free Textures from Flickr
Feel free to use these high res texture images for layering and creating digital composites.
How to make a texture overlay in Photoshop.
Lost & Taken: Textures & The Pursuit of Happiness
“Lost and Taken is a blog dedicated towards free high resolution textures. Caleb really does a great job with the site and always seems to find new ways to surprise us with new and creative textures.” - Grant Friedman of Colorburned
Lost and Taken was created over two and a half years ago with one intention: to helps designers by giving away the best free textures available. To this day, Lost and Taken textures have been viewed tens of millions of times and have helped thousands of designers accomplish their jobs a little easier and with more beautiful results.
Thought you might like this since you all are so into piercings!
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