Learn to use the Blend If sliders in the layer options and avoid having to create complex selections or masks.
Author: Matt Kloskowski
Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has authored and co-authored five books on Photoshop and Illustrator and teaches an advanced Photoshop course for Sessions.edu. In addition to being an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer, Matt is a regular contributor to Photoshop User and Layers magazines and writes weekly columns for several digital imaging websites.
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Wow! Such a great tip! I’ve been ignoring those sliders all these years, and I can think of dozens of cases in my past where this could have saved hours of work. Thanks for the tip!
commenting to turn the video on,
Hey Matt
I’ve always found it a little tricky to blend images in properly using the other options given. A really helpful tutorial, definitely a great way of blending images to make them look the part of the primary image.
Thank You.
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OMG! very nice…Thank you so much!!!
This is great…simple and helpful!!
does it work with white background??
Waste of time. Can’t get video to show up. Blank white screen. What gives?
This video also didn’t show up in my Fireefox 4.0.1 but DID open when I pasted the link into Windows Explorer.
Thank you, this is going to help me so much! I have officially just saved myself 299 headaches and 399 hours of time saved, thank you Sir!
just incredible !
thank you very much !