Creative Luminosity Techniques
Last week, we saw several ways in which we could introduce the Luminosity blend mode into our Photoshop sharpening workflow. Today, it’s all about creative application of this technique. Since the [More]
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Luminosity Sharpening 3 Ways
Last time on TipSquirrel, on our ever-expanding journey into blend modes in Photoshop, we looked at the Luminosity blend mode. This mode allowed us to use the brightness values from one layer to make [More]
Introducing the Luminosity Blend Mode
Whether you produce your images for web or for print, at some point you’ll want to sharpen the images for output. Sharpening, as we’ve discussed in earlier tips, is a process in which the [More]
Creative Differences
Last week we looked at some practical and very utilitarian ways to take advantage of Difference blend modes in Adobe Photoshop. Today, we’re going to take a 180 degree turn and look at some ways of [More]
Image alignment and analysis with Difference Blending
Way back when we started our journey through the dark and forbidding lands of Photoshop Blend Modes, I showed this chart, grouping the blend modes into some distinct categories: If you look closely, [More]
Refining Masks with Overlay Blending
After a weeks break TipSquirrel welcomes back Mike Hoffman Creating a good mask is an essential part of retouching and compositing images, but the process of developing that mask doesn’t have to [More]
Photoshop Blend Modes – Part 6
The Overlay blend mode in Photoshop is typically used to enhance contrast, making the shadows darker and the highlights brighter. Last week, we looked at a method for using the High Pass Filter in [More]
Photoshop Blend Modes Part 5
Monday means Mike Hoffman. Here he continues his tour of Photoshop’s Blend Mode This week, we’ll continue our exploration of practical uses of the Overlay blending mode in Photoshop. Recall [More]
Photoshop Blend Mode Basics – Part 4
Welcome back to Mike Hoffman for the latest in his Blend Mode series. Links to previous parts can be found at the bottom of this post. In earlier parts of this series, we’ve seen that Screen [More]
Photoshop Blend Mode Basics – Part 3
By Mike Hoffman Thank you all for welcoming me back to TipSquirrel.com! This week, we’re going to continue our exploration of blend modes in Photoshop. In the past two installments, we reviewed [More]
Blend Mode Basics – Part 2
TipSquirrel welcomes back Mike Hoffman Welcome back to my ongoing series, exploring the secrets of blending modes in Photoshop. Last time, we looked at the four main categories of blend modes [More]
Blend Mode Basics – Part 1
First and foremost, I’d like to thank TipSquirrel.com for asking me to come back and present another series of tutorials for you! [Welcome back Mike! (TS)] For the next several weeks, [More]
Creating a Jack-O’Lantern Carving with Layer Styles
Written By Mike Hoffman – Mike On Twitter – On The Web Click To Enlarge With Halloween imminent, here’s a quick way to create spooky, scary or silly Jack O’Lanterns starting with a [More]
Creating a Jack-O’Lantern Carving with Layer Styles
With Halloween imminent, here’s a quick way to create spooky, scary or silly Jack O’Lanterns starting with a simple image of a pumpkin, and a cutout shape of the face you want to use. We’ll [More]