Blending is Fun – Basix
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Blending is Fun – Basix

on Jan 19th 2011 with 54 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 8 Minutes

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This entry is part 7 of 29 in the Photoshop Basix Session
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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we understand how overwhelming our site may be to those of you who may be brand new to Photoshop. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 7: Blending is Fun will explain how to get to grips with layer blend modes. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • Sebastian Z.

    hey guys,

    it says: part 12 of 7, haha.

    i think it’s the other way round ;)

    Sebastian Z.

  • neil bloodtitan

    régi hozzászólás, de: ez tönköly basics angolul, c nem egy x

  • erickaweb

    Very helpful tip about setting the “Fill” to 0% – I will definitely use that over and over. Thanks!

  • Dylan Roberson

    Great tutorial! I love them all because they really teach one the most important things in Photoshop, plus they are very easy to follow. Looking forward to the next one.

  • http://paulroman.wordpress.com Paul Roman

    That’s something I should definetly give it a try.

  • http://www.psd-dude.com PsdDude

    Blending it is really fun…I don’t like cropping, it is boring and time consuming :)

  • http://advertise-stl.com james singleton

    very cool i love to learn new design trick thank for the info

  • Kent

    Thank you for making these screencasts. You are easy to understand and present your material in a pedagogical way. Thumbs up!

  • GrassFish

    I love the way you teach photoshop! thx a lot, looking forward to your next video

  • http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/icon-design/create-a-cute-twitter-bird-icon-in-photoshop/ hi

    I really have a burning question. It’s not about this, but about something else. I’m posting it here cause I hope I’ll get a reply. The thing is that I’ve been doing a few tutorials recently and I’m new to photoshop. What I don’t understand is that my circles and other objects created with the ellipse tool don’t turn out as smooth as in the tutorials. Like this twitter bird tutorial I’m doing. The shapes are rounded in the tutorial, but on mine they’re a bit edgy, if you know what I mean. I’m using CS3, if that has anything to do with it. Also, most of the time when I make shapes with the ellipse tool I choose “Shape layers” so that the color automatically fills in the shape. Could that be the problem? I’d really be happy for a response! Thanks in advance!

    PS I linked the above mentioned tutorial to my name just in case you want to see what I mean.

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi,

      It is difficult to find out the problem without seeing it on your machine but if you send me an email with an attached image example that you made I would probably be able to find the problem.

      Without seeing it I would say it is a problem with the size of the document. Try to use larger pixel dimensions.

    • http://www.cookandmix.wordpress.com LadyLawrence

      When making your shapes (circles, for example)… are you using the ellipse tool or the eliptical marquee?

      • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
        Author

        The marquee is for making selections mainly, so for anything else it is better to use the Ellipse Shape tool.

    • Thomas

      Sounds like an anti aliasing issue.
      This happens when you’re either not 100% zoomed in or there’s an issue with your graphics card.
      Try turning off openGL drawing in the settings.

  • Trevor

    Very nice one again, easy to follow and very informative.

  • Andre Nathan

    your sound is extremely clear, even english is not my main language, i can 100% understand it, thanks

    but at the last picture, are u just use brush, blend mode play and the sketch???

    btw, why you don’t upload your tuts on youtube, youtube’s buffer speed is better than this one at my place

  • rick james

    you have a wonderful voice. i fell in love with you XD

    Call me….

  • Liz Finnie

    Thank you so much. That was very helpful – nice and simply explained!

  • Colin

    Thanks Marting for these tutorials. As a novice photography enthusiast they are really helping me to get to grips with Photoshop. You work is by far the best tutorials I’ve found.

    Much appreciate your efforts.

    Regards
    Colin

  • edis

    O.K. great tut, now show us how you colored the drawing :) that,9 what i would like to see as a tut . . .

  • Lisa

    Good Stuff I found your coloring technique very useful to further my technique

    Thanks Lisa

  • http://www.maiconweb.com Maicon Sobczak

    Very useful tips. Cover the others blending modes would be even better.

  • Albert

    Thanks a lot for your nice Tuts, you’re really helping us get into PS.
    Now PLEASE, make a full Tutorial about how you got to the final colored image!!! :O) Please!

  • kubakubecki

    Very useful series of tuts. I really enjoy all of them. Thanks a lot!

  • http://www.aMixedmedia.co.uk Nik Jones

    Has this video been deleted? It keeps telling me it has :(

  • Nik Jones

    Scrap that! Mac playing up! Really great basic tutorials, great for a learner like me :)

  • rk

    Another great tut! I had seen this type of blending on lot of french scrap booking sites and now I know how it was done. Thank you so much!

  • Gerald

    Very simple and insicive. Easy to follow tutorials.
    Thanks a bunch!

  • Jason119

    I downloaded the source file….may i know where should i put it?

  • Alec

    Awesome tutorial! Thanks so much!

    Just one question: where did you get the textures which we blend with the picture? I’ve got them because I downloaded the source files, but I’d still like to know: where did you get them? The one which fills the whole picture is really great, I’d like to know please :)

    Thanks!

  • Débora

    Oh my god, these tutorials are becoming really exciting to me! haha First I caught myself answering out loud “multiply” and enjoying it when he said I got the right anser. Then, when he showed his final painting, I was literally awed and then thought ‘well, of course he laughs, look at this!’. haha Great. I’m still not believing you’re uploading the files also, Martin.
    Thankyou for sharing all this.

    p.s.: my ‘thankyou’ is underlined as wrong. I really thought it was a whole word; is it separated?

    • Débora

      Ok, I came up with a question. I tested real quick the different blending modes and understood most of them, even because it’s divided into groups in the list according to the effect it’ll apply, right? I mean, the darks together, the lights together, the overlapping types together.
      Well, I didn’t really get the Dissolve mode, and why it is ‘grouped’ with Normal. Plus, if anyone could explain the main logic behind the last two groups, I would be really thankful!!
      =)

  • FS

    Thanks a lot.. your tutorials are very helpful ^ ^

  • Dovechick

    Very helpful tutorial thanks… I hope that one day there may be some crib cards attached to these tuts. It takes me time to assimilate all this stuff and it would make it easier to have a reference at my elbow when I am working on something,

  • Dave

    Martin, thanks for the tutorials you’re really helping me grow in my understanding and knowledge of photoshop.
    Good luck with your other tutorials, thanks again and God Bless!

  • Aditya

    I have to learn more of this photo tutorials… and how to make videos in graphical way … can any one suggest??

    Good video By the way :)

  • Kris

    Thanks Martin, your a blessing! Great tutorials!

  • Nathan

    Your tutorials are sensational. :) They seem so simple, yet I learn a fair few tricks! :)

  • Rachael

    Hi…I am learning Phtotoshop for the very first time. I have a very silly questions. How do I get the negative filmstrip layer and the other materials you used…abstract etc…do I download these or are they already in a panel?

    Are there any tutorials that can give me step by step instructions? I am all googled out without much help. I learn better at watching than reading.

    It took me a while to figure out the layers tutorial…I am like a baby just learning how to creep.

    Thanks for your help.

  • Rachael

    I found the filmstrip and I am figuring out how to get the other materials. Thanks anyway!

  • David

    Hi Martin Ive been watching your tutorials. How did you become a adobe instructor and to be come good with photoshop do you need to be very artistic or is it something that comes with a lot of practice?

  • http://www.ameeto.com Abhimanyu

    I really like it too much..!!
    Just love it..!!
    and ya i was totally get shocked when i see that dragon that you color by spending couple of minutes..
    that’s was a awesome coloring using Photoshop..!!
    thanks man

  • dynacs

    your english and speech tone are very kind. thanks.
    I really like it.

  • dd

    This Video Tutorials of Martin Perhiniak are awesome. I’ve learn so much from him. Thank you very very much. You are a great tutor!

  • Elisandro Borges

    Amazing tutorial! Great instructor! Thank you for your patience and for sharing such an awesome knowledge!

  • phil

    cool my name is PHIL to

  • andreea

    it`s seems impossible to me to make a paint like in the tut..oh gosh..you`re absolutely awesome..i just wanna be like you

  • leon7655

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  • Richard

    Awesome tutorials. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, there is a lot of us that really appreciate that.

  • Paul

    What am I doing wrong i followed the steps I hot over lay and the texture doesn’t over lay!!! It just shows me the texture!!!!! Man I was doing so good too!!

  • http://twitter.com/geelvanrobby Robby Vangeel

    Thanks for a very accessible and informative series of tuts. Keep up the good work!

  • Frankie Di Modica Jr.

    Mr. Perhiniak at first i was coming for the lessons that are by the way AWESOME but then you …you funny guy ….its the jokes that keep me coming back. Seriously your tutorials are great and i thank you sir.

  • Shane Warren

    I love you Martin Perhiniak! <3<3<3xxooxx

  • http://www.facebook.com/ichigo.kun.90 Alyusser Ahmed Sebihi

    At Last Thaaaaaaanks a lot MARTIN ^v^/