Photography Phriday – mini tutorial
Happy Photography Phriday folks. Brittney here, ready to bring you a quick tip on how to pump up lack luster photos. I learned this trick not long ago from the brilliant ksharonk, and now I use it on almost EVERY photo I scrap, in one way or another. It’s so simple, but works like a charm! (Especially for those of us who aren’t lucky enough to own a fancy pants camera.)
My instructions will be for Photoshop. But, I think you could use this trick in any program.
Step 1) With your photo open in Photoshop, duplicate your photo (control + J).
Step 2) Change the Blending Mode (drop down menu is found at the top of the layers palette) of the top copy of the photo. Choose “Overlay” for a big pop, or choose “Soft Light” for a little pop.
3) Play with the opacity (slider also found at the top of the layers palette) of that top photo to get just the right look.
That’s it! Don’t you LOVE how much better your photos can look?? Merge the photos when you’re all done.
Here are some examples of my photo with different settings.
Hope this tip comes in handy! Have a great day!
xoxo,
Britt
January 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
great tip! thanks for sharing
January 11th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
That seems way too easy! Will definately be trying this one!
January 11th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Great tip Brittney. Easy with fantastic results–my kind of tip! Thanks for sharing.
January 15th, 2008 at 6:44 am
thanks for sharing… off to try this!!
January 18th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Oh thank you SOOOOOOOOOOoo much for posting this!! Believe it or not…yesterday I had a photo of my son in a black shirt that was a bit washed out due to the underexposed image…this will definitely help that picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited to learn this tip!!! TY TY TY!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:36 am
can’t wait to try this since my method is much longer/more time intensive. All I have to do is find out where the blending mode is on PSE 6! TY!