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The blend modes in Photoshop offer incredible creative options for designers and photographers wanting to enhance images. In Photoshop CS4: Blend Mode Magic, Michael Ninness shows Photoshop users how to access and apply blend modes efficiently to achieve an aesthetic vision. He explains the building blocks of layer blending and demonstrates how blend modes can be used for color correction, sharpening, blending images together, adding dramatic glow, applying custom edge treatments, and many other creative effects. Michael also introduces advanced blending options for more experienced Photoshop users. Most of all, he demystifies this essential feature in plain, easy-to-understand terms and inspires photographers to use blend modes in ways they may have never considered before. Exercise files accompany the course.

Course Photoshop CS4: Blend Mode Magic Author Michael Ninness SKU ISBN Release Date 2009-05-20 Duration 2.58 hrs / 46 tutorials Work files Yes Price $ 49.95 Retail price $ 99.95 Language Tags Photoshop, CS4 Required software Adobe Photoshop CS4

Introduction Welcome 01:33 Using the exercise files 00:52 1. Blending Fundamentals The three kinds of blending in Photoshop 01:49 Blend modes, blend modes, everywhere! 01:38 Cycling through the blending modes 02:01 Three blending modes you must know 05:08 Blending mode keyboard shortcuts 02:33 2. The Dissolve Group Roughening or pointilizing edges with Dissolve 03:13 3. The Darken Group Removing halos with Darken 02:26 Bringing down hot highlights with Multiply 03:50 Tonal correction with Screen and Multiply 03:35 Combining adjustment layers with blending modes 03:58 Creating a composite from a single Camera Raw file 05:56 Creating a cast shadow with Multiply 04:50 Creating artistic edges with Multiply and Screen 03:39 From iPhone to Photoshop: Colorizing line art with Multiply 06:26 4. The Lighten Group Removing dust spots with Lighten 01:36 Adding lightning to a sky with Screen 03:20 Adding a lens flare effect with Screen 02:27 Reducing halos when sharpening with Lighten 03:55 Creating a faint soft-edged line drawing with Linear Dodge 03:29 5. The Contrast Group Using Dodge and Burn with Overlay 04:34 Reducing wrinkles with Overlay 06:37

Using graduated neutral density filters with Overlay 05:32 Custom vignettes with Overlay 03:30 High-Pass sharpening with Overlay 04:16 Smoothing skin with High-Pass sharpening and Overlay 05:29 Textured patterns with Overlay 06:21 Textured type with Overlay 02:55 Creating a dramatic diffused glow with Overlay 02:49 Creating a subtle glow with Soft Light 02:57 Creating a medium glow with Soft Light 04:25 Simulating film grain with Add Noise and Soft Light 03:54 Recovering detail in over-saturated areas with Pin Light 08:30 Creating 80's pop art with Hard Mix and Multiply 03:15 6. The Difference Group Aligning layers with Difference 05:07 7. The Color (HSL) Group Reducing color noise with Color 02:13 Avoiding false saturation with Luminosity 05:33 Recovering detail in blown-out highlights with Luminosity 05:05 8. Advanced Blending Options Getting better sepia tones 05:15 Using antique color effects 05:05 Combining multiple exposures 04:34 Replacing the sky in an image 03:44 Splitting edges when sharpening 03:15 Displacing type around contours 04:34 Conclusion Goodbye 00:22