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Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

Lesson 68 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

Lesson 68 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

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68. Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

02:36
2

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

01:20

Layers

3

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:56
4

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

07:37
5

Layers - Quiz

Color & Adjustment Layers

6

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

04:03
7

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

03:28
8

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

02:52
9

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
10

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

04:35
11

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

10:57
12

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Shapes

13

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

04:10
14

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

12:01
15

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

06:39
16

Shapes - Quiz

Text

17

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:09
18

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
19

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

13:04
20

Text - Quiz

Layer Styles

21

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

08:17
22

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

02:19
23

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

03:02
24

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

06:35
25

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

04:29

Cropping

26

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:40
27

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:11
28

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

01:55

Selections & Masking

29

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

06:20
30

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

09:35
31

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

10:11
32

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

00:37
33

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:01
34

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:47
35

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

08:57
36

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

04:36
37

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

03:18
38

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

16:24
39

Class Project - Selecting Hair

01:21
40

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:41
41

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

13:15
42

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

01:41
43

Selection & Masking - Quiz

Filters

44

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

04:14
45

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

03:12
46

Class Project – Oil Painting

00:31
47

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

06:42
48

Class exercise - Halftone

00:23
49

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:28
50

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

03:31
51

Filters - Quiz

Smart Objects

52

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:03

Transform & Distort

53

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

07:49
54

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

03:13
55

Class Project - Peeling Sky

00:49
56

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

05:44
57

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

09:17
58

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

00:52

Retouching

59

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

06:56
60

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

02:38
61

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

00:53
62

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

05:22
63

Class Project - Retouching

00:47
64

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:46
65

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:33
66

Retouching

Blending Modes

67

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

04:15
68

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

07:10
69

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

15:14
70

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

02:15

Visual Styles

71

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

05:43
72

Class Project - Duotones

00:20
73

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

06:14
74

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect

00:36
75

How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop

08:40
76

Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo

00:49
77

How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC

12:07
78

Class Project - Paper Cut Effect

00:31

Artboards

79

How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC

20:14

Color Modes & Resolution

80

What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:12
81

How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC

10:38
82

Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz

Brushes

83

Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop

12:22
84

How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:11
85

77. Class Project - Ink Splats

00:54
86

How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop

06:46
87

Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush

00:55
88

How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC

05:50
89

Class Project - Smoke Effect

01:03

Shadows

90

How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

05:26
91

How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop

07:16
92

Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

03:33

Export

93

How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media

10:18

What Next

94

What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class

01:15

Final Quiz

95

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

Hi there, this video is about blending modes and using it to make these kind of colored box accents, see the logo down the bottom there and this big kind of, I'm going to say fuchsia box at the top, They're super easy to do. Let's learn how to do it now in adobe Photoshop. First up, let's open the image we're going to work with. You can use any jpeg, we, if you want to follow exactly, we'll use 10 blending modes and go to color accent dot PSD. Now this is something we worked on earlier if you can't remember or you didn't do that earlier tutorial, there's three layers and turn the top two off so it's just the background and what we did is we copied the model out onto her own layer issues at the top there and in between we put this text so that when they're all piled on top of each other, we've got this cool laid effect. But you can do this just with plain old jpeg, you just won't get to tuck it behind the model. So first up, let's grab the rectangle tool. Okay, you might have had someth...

ing else selected. Let's grab the rectangle tool up here where it says stroke, I'm going to have a no stroke where it says Phil I'm going to pick a color, I'm gonna use this little huge slider. The switches are cool but I'm gonna use the hue slider and just pick something like what I actually want is can you see I just use the eyedropper tool if you got this huge picker open, you can just click in here and I want to kind of like dark green. So I want to maybe darken it down a little bit but you found the color click Ok, now we're going to do is click hold and drag out a rectangle. I kind of wanted it something like that. Right? And let's fancy it up a little bit. I'm gonna if yours is locked like this, I'm going to break the link and then click hold and drag that to the right. You can see over there we're gonna get one rounded corner. Alright. And the magic really happens is with this layer selected like in the last one. Okay, we're going to look at these different options now in our case dissolve. Never seems to do anything. But let's start with darkened nothing multiply. Pretty good. And you just got to kind of work your way through this list until you find something you like now because we're working with color modes for the next little bit or blending color modes. This clicking, clicking, clicking, clicking, clicking clicking will drive you mad. Okay, so there is a shortcut. It's pretty advanced. Okay, but it might be worth it. You might be going man, this is going to kill me. So if that is you, what you need to do is first you need to be on the move tool for some reason. I'm not sure why. Then hold down the shift key on your keyboard and then tap the plus key. It has to be the one up at the top. Okay, right next to all your numbers and above all your keys for some reason. That's the shortcut. It's a weird one. Okay. And you can see by tapping that, I'm just toddling all the way through. It's the same for mac and a pc. I'm just trying to find the one that works. That's kind of cool, like like that kind of effect color burn. It's kind of this overexposed greenie, you are kind of thing. That's what's gonna work for me now, the rest of it is just picking different colors and we're gonna add some text like you said at the beginning so you can skip on. Otherwise follow me and we'll do a little bit more. It's a rectangle tool Again, I'm going to pick a different field color. I'm going to go in here and pick what kind of a ready I want to say fuchsia. I'm not even sure what to call this color. I should know your designer dan. That works for me. I don't have that layer selected otherwise it changes that one. I'll leave that in there in case you make that same mistake. So I'm going to go to edit undo. Edit, can't do anything, go back to my move tool was halfway through picking a color with that little box up. So now I can go edit. Step backwards, I'll leave all that in there, it's good stuff. So instead of changing that color, what we're gonna do is you can click on any of these other layers and it will work fine or have nothing selected, there's kind of a great area in the bottom, that means I don't want any layers selected. Now, if I go to my rectangle tool, click up here, it's not going to change that later back to my future, you're allowed to correct me if I'm wrong. Pinky red, nuclear red. Anyway, so I've got my rectangle tool, I've got no stroke and I'm just drawing that big box off the page and down to the floor line because it looked kind of cool. Now I'm gonna use my shortcut, remember onto the move tool and then hold down, shift and tap plus if you tap minus it goes backwards even that that's just cool like that, we're gonna do duo tones in an upcoming video and it's going to use a similar sort of effect like this. But what the first thing I want to do is I want to drag this rectangle to be just behind the text here, so this is kind of like literally interaction Nous going, What's that one, Lindeberg looks kind of cool. It really depends on what you're looking for here, we're using blending modes now, just for visual effects, not anything super serious, but it's super easy to do and quite fun, that's going to work for me, I'm using multiply. This one down here is using color burn now I'm just going to add some text. I'm gonna grab my type tool and remember from our type tool exercise, don't click inside this box because it will try and turn that box into a text box. That's not what I want to do. So under typing. Go away. Oh and do typing escape key. Is that I didn't mean it key. Then you can go to edit step backwards and it should do that whole chunk undone. So when you are drawing out a text box, remember the square box around the outside is good if I try and do it inside this rectangle here or along the side here, I can get into trouble by linking the two together. So I'm just gonna drag my text box kind of out over here. I'm going to go to type and I'm going to before you go and fill with Lauren ipsum, you can pick a font size, that's more appropriate font size minds at point am I letting let's set it to auto so that when I go and go to type and say pace, Lauren ipsum, just placeholder text. It's not going to paste like giant texts that we might have done in the last tutorial. Cool, so that's gonna be my bit of text type tool again, you can skip on now and just listen about. I think you look cool, mainly looking and cool for the intro so that it sucks you in and makes you want to do this one when really we just change the blending mode on a colored box trick you in here bringing the logo as well. Let's go to file open. There's a logo in that same 10 blending modes. Okay, logo dot ai I'm going to click OK 60 copy in here, paste converted to a smart object because we're super serious about this Photoshop stuff and shrinking it down, moving it to where I want it to be. Have you ever figure 10? Alright, that is going to be it. I'm liking this rectangle less as a color burn. What you might notice is that layer there is actually underneath all of this. So I'm gonna bring it to the top. It's not making much of a difference now, but it might do if we change the blending mode of this green rectangle and I'm just gonna go to multiply. Everyone uses multiply. Actually I don't like to play now man, you should seriously skip on, I'm happy with that. Settled on linear light. Alright, friends, that is how to use blending modes to do kind of color accents in adobe, Photoshop CC in the next video

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