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Achieve professional-level artistic and graphic design effects by blending objects' colours, textures and other characteristics using Blend Modes in the impressive vector artwork program, Serif DrawPlus X4.

Three Blending Modes in Photoshop that I love using are the Multiply, Screen, and Overlay modes. I decided to take some time to create a mini-quick-tip for these blend modes to show people a real-world example of how these would work in their photos. Check it out now! The three modes are covered in an over-view sense and show you how each related to some color theory. Here's the breakdown: Multiply Mode: Multiply mode takes the color that you're painting and multiplies it's value against the color underneath, therefore greatly increasing saturation, contrast, and more importantly, taking white-values as being transparent. It's also a great way to demonstrate the additive color process. Screen Mode: Screen mode is almost the complete opposite of Multiply, decreasing saturation, and dividing the color underneath, making colors lighter, and using the top color value for hue. Screen mode also works better with a dark or black background. When on black, you can see the subtractive color process in action. Overlay Mode: Overlay mode is a great way to enhance shadows and highlights, taking the brightness of the colors and multiplying them by the brightness of the values underneath, they can make for really dramatic enhancements to your photographs, act as a way to paint in shadows, and work as an exposure brush for non-raw images. Hope you enjoy the quick video and hopefully you'll leave me some feedback on more blending modes you'd like to discuss, and I can make a full <b>...</b>

This video will show you the various techniques of using blend modes in Digital Scrapbook Artist 2. You'll be able to create your own background papers in no time!

Changing opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend mode is like shining a light or casting a shadow: The active layer infuses those behind it with life. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop—beginning with #40 and working his way up to #1—one weekly video at a time. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are invaluable. Learn these 40 features and you'll know Photoshop.

An in-depth tutorial with step-by-step directions on using Photoshop to edit a person into a photo. Check out more tutorials on www.TutorVid.com Want to know how to do something in Photoshop? Request a tutorial in the comments or post here http Image Credits: Steve Polyak : www.flickr.com Ed Yourdon: www.flickr.com

I'm officially obsessed with this movie. Have you seen it? What did you think?! Considering this photo edit only took me 30 minutes, i think it's pretty damn good :) Now if only i could make myself a tail... FYI - photo retouched in Adobe Photoshop CS3, filmed using iShowu, edited in iMovie blog.franchesca.net http

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Images & Brushes Links: Texture: www.sxc.hu Car: www.sxc.hu Grunge Brushes: www.brusheezy.com Welcome to this tutorial! We are going to take a look at how to create this cool, fully customizable and editable grungy, dirty, distressed background. We will use a combo of texture, brushing, and blend modes to create a very cool background inspired by a modest iTunes Gift Card! Learn about brushing, adjustment layers, dodging and burning, blend modes, texturing, masking, and even a slight touch of the pen tool. Enjoy! Twitter! www.twitter.com Be sure to check out www.tutvid.com Check out the blog @ http