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Alright you're watching a figmint video tutorial and I'm Frisby
and this tutorial I'm going to show you about layer modes in Photoshop
they're a really awesome, cool way of making everything you make in Photoshop
really awesome and cool
and you can see here in this layout that I applied a texture effect and with that combined
with the layer mode it looks pretty awesome. ...I like the word awesome today...
And here I also used a layer mode on this text
to give it a weird but cool burning effect. And it looks pretty sweet and once you conquer
this you'll be able to do really cool stuff.
So one of the main parts of doing this is finding a good texture.
So I have some website here. Morguefile is a stock photo site. Stock photos
are photos you can take and do what you want with. Sometimes you have to pay for them.
Morguefile is a free site and they let you do pretty much whatever you want. But when
you go to a stock photo site you should be sure to read their terms of use.
So for an example, let's look for some bokeh. If you don't know what bokeh is this is bokeh.
And it's a pretty cool light texture. And when you apply it you can get some pretty
neat effects. On my own website if you go resources, stock photography, light and bokeh,
you can get some of the same stuff. I like these three. They work pretty well for layer
modes. And I also have some textures that you can download under resources. Let's see
textures...and paper textures...look pretty cool as well. Paper effect, which is in another
tutorial. Anyway, you can find some good textures. You can just search google, but again make
sure you are following their terms of use. I have some already downloaded from a while
ago. Been using the same ones pretty much. And they work pretty well. I have my own folder
for all the stock images I've downloaded. Textures...So here are just a few stock textures
I use a lot. This particular one was used in the desert layout. Open up photoshop. Create
a new document. Let's do 500 by 300 for no particular reason. Alright, so I got my document.
Let's say I want to make this sort of...yellow colored, I do that a lot. I like yellow warm
tones. So we pick a color that will be the average of all the colors our final image
will have, so sort of a golden color. And I'll fill the background with that color.
Now grab this. Copy and paste it in. And then over here in the layers menu you have this
little drop down menu which is the key to everything. Right now it says Normal. And
you can select from this long list of a bunch of different effects. Some of them do really
hideous, ugly things, or random boring things. These aren't very exciting, the ones at the
bottom. That's okay, it's kind of cool. Usually I just go through the list. It's kind of hard
to memorize what each of the different ones do. But you can get a general idea just by
using them a lot. These ones in this group all have a similar function, etc. One I like
to use a lot is overlay which is right in the middle and it just generally has a positive
effect on the appearance of graphics. Here, let's get a...this one has bokeh, it's pretty
sweet texture. Just dragging it into my document. Set the mode to overlay. See we're looking
kind of cool and awesome already. You never want an entire document to be this bland background,
cool looking but plain in a way. You need some sort of subject, so let's get a picture
of something. A bee. And we'll make this the subject of the picture. That's pretty big
so I'm gonna zoom out. Grab the corner, hold down shift, make it smaller. Put this in the
middle so it fits on nice. There. Now I can see the edges, which is what I want. Get a
nice soft eraser brush and just erase away some of this. Let's look at the actual size.
You never really know what you're going to get when you mess around with layer modes.
Unless you memorize them all. But generally you can find something that looks pretty cool.
That overlay looked nice. It's annoying if you have to undo something 'cause you have
to undo each thing. (I'm probably mumbling aren't I?)
Alright I, kind of like that. So let's try adding some text. Hey look at these sweet
textures. Let's make the font non yellow. Grab some of that green. And then...layer
mode, overlay, I like that effect. I like overlay, as you can tell. They all have slightly
different effects. So find one you like. I'll edit the text a little. Make the line-height
even less. Let's see, there's one more thing I was going to do. Oh yes. Gradients can have
a really cool effect. Let's just try messing with this image all by itself. Create a new
layer and then I have this gradient with lots of colors, this one, and it's on linear mode
so it fades from left to right, it's not like a circle or anything. So on its own layer,
click here hold down shift, drag it across. Crazy ugly gradient. Awesome. So now we set
the layer mode to overlay. And the colors are sort of absorbed into this image on the
bottom. If we turn down the saturation, yeah, the colors turn up even more. And you just
passed on the colors from this gradient onto the image. And it looks....sweet. Let's try
doing the same thing here. See, doesn't that look--just awesome? If you want to change colors you
can do Apple + U which is what I was doing before to lower the saturation. It just is...Enhance,
Adjust Color, Hue/Saturation. So let's change the hue and see if it looks...That's okay...I'll
just put it back to how it was. I like that. Mess with the saturation. Turn it down so
it's less dramatic. You usually don't want to mess with lightness. But looks kind of
nice here turned down. So that's that you can add a border if you want. Apple + A, edit,
stroke outline. 1 pixel.There's the same layer modes in here, I never use it. I just give
the border its own layer. And then I set the layer mode here to like, overlay. And there
you go, you've got a really awesome graphic. It's really simple, just paste in the background
color, paste in an image, put some textures on there, and set the layer mode to something
like overlay. Turn down the opacity over here if you want to get different effects and add
some text, and gradients can be a nice touch as well. So now you have the knowledge you
need to conquer the world, make awesome graphics. So hope you've enjoyed this. Go, do something
awesome.