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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #11 – Opacity Mode and Blend Modes

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke shows how to mix and blend layer opacities for best results.

P.S. If you want to see all of the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown tutorials in one place (and maybe want to bookmark some features), they are now compiled in the Online Training Library®!

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #12 – Camera Raw

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Camera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast information captured by your digital SLR camera. Not just powerful, it is a force unto itself. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke shows us how to tap into its many features.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #13 – File Info

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then use File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author, a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #14 – Gaussian Blur

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Gaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But it’s also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and everything that is soft in Photoshop. In this week’s video, Deke explains just why Gaussian Blur is so important.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #15 – Alpha Channels

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire weight of Photoshop to the task of editing a selection. And masking, thy name is alpha channel. Watch Deke’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown episode #15 to see the steps to using alpha channels to your benefit.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #16 – Adjustment Layers

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

An adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that you can edit any time you like. It affects all layers below it, consumes very little space in memory, and affords the opportunity for selective edits. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown episode, Deke takes us through using one of Photoshop’s oldest and best non-destructive image-editing tools.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #17 – Layer Effects

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Yes, layer effects let you make drop shadows. But they also let you create credible compositions, render simple layers in dimension, and add ambient lighting. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke explains why he can’t imagine working in Photoshop without them.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #18 – Smart Objects

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Monday, December 14th, 2009

Smart objects aren’t all that smart, and they aren’t objects. What they are is envelopes or containers—the kind that hold things and keep them safe so that you can apply transformations and filters and protect the image from harm. This is Photoshop at its best.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #19 – Luminance Blending

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Buried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend pixels according to their brightness. Despite their prosaic names, these sliders rank among the most powerful features in all of Photoshop.

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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #20 – Free Transform

Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer? Right-click on it and select Rotate? Choose Rotate from the Layer menu? Click on the Rotate tool? The answer is no, no, and no. Fortunately, there’s the Free Transform command, which rotates the active layer and much, much more. This week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown video takes us through features of the Free Transform tool step by step.

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