Photoshop Basics Tutorials

Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop par ...

Pen Tool Technique My final technique will be to use the Pen Tool to create a path that outlines the object, then use the path to creat …

Photoshop’s Linear Burn

Photoshop’s Linear Burn blending mode results in an effect similar to Multiply Mode, where lighter areas in the blend layer allow …

Blending Modes: Dissolve

Photoshop has what it calls “Blending Modes.” In the Layers palette, these options show up in the drop-down that is usually set to …

Darken and Lighten Blending Modes

Here are two images that I’m going to blend together. I purposefully made them two different colors, and also made sure that the …

Multiply Mode in Photoshop

Well, the answer actually depends on the value (lightness/darkness) of the red and green used, when you’re dealing with Multiply …

Photoshop’s Linear Light

The Linear Light blending mode is a combination of Linear Burn and Linear Dodge—but similar to Vivid Light, the combination gives sli …

Feel the Color Burn

Again, let’s start with the Photoshop description of Color Burn: Color Burn: Looks at the color information in each channel and d …

Color Dodge Blend Mode

You may have caught on by now that Photoshop has “opposite” blend modes: Darken vs. Lighten, Multiply vs. Screen, and Color or Line …

Vivid Light Blending Mode

Photoshop’s describes Vivid Light blending mode as combining the effects of Color Dodge and Color Burn modes like this: Vivid Lig …

Hue Blending Mode in Photoshop

The Hue Blend mode is pretty straightforward: Hue Mode: Creates a result color with the luminance and saturation of the base color and …

Saturation Blend Mode in Photoshop

We’re in the home stretch of the Photoshop Blending Modes series (good heavens, that means I have to come up with more topics to …

Color Blend Mode in Photoshop

The Color Blend Mode in Photoshop takes the “grey levels” of the base color and colors them with the blend color: Color Blend Mode: …

Photoshop’s Luminosity Mode

Photoshop says this about the Luminosity Mode: Creates a result color with the hue and saturation of the base color and the luminance o …

Copying Layer Styles in Photoshop

I just learned a new trick!! I’ll explain my “old way” of doing things first. Let’s say you have a layer in Photoshop a …

Photoshop Tool Basics

I decided to start at the beginning. The very beginning. For those people who just “picked up” a copy of Photoshop and have …

Halftone custom photoshop shape

This tutorial is going to show you a way to create halftone custom adobe Photoshop shapes. These shapes can be used in many design proj …

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