Mixing Layers With Opacity Settings in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photo Shop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc, and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. O.k., so on this tutorial I'm going to kind of talk to you about playing with your options. O.k, so right on this moment we have the soft-light selected, and we have this bottom sky, which is this is the original picture, and we added soft-light to it to make it look a little different. As you can see right here in this area of the photograph, we really brightened up that little walk way there. But, the cool thing is we still have these two bottom layers down here. If you forgot what they look like I will show you. We can un-click the soft-light and un-click the regular sky, and this is basically what it look like in the beginning, and then we actually added a sky to it. So, as you can see the difference this is the original land copy without the sky messed with, and this is one with the sky messed with, and then this is the original, and this is with the soft-light. What you can do, you can actually drop the opacity on every one of these to get a look that blends every one of our options. So, say for instance we want to drop the opacity on the soft-light just a little bit so it doesn't look so crazy. O.k., now you go down to the regular sky one, and you drop this opacity, and it's going to bring in the layer behind that. As you can see lightly it looks little different. Now, what you want to do is, you want to go down to this land copy, you want to bring in that cool looking sky from earlier, you drop that opacity. It's kind of bringing in that sky. Then you drop the opacity like eighteen- percent. So, what we have here is an actual representation of all of our layers put together. As you can tell this layer is at twenty-four percent, if I click here it's at thirty-four percent, click here this is at eighteen-percent, and then the last layers at one-hundred percent. We can actually drop this last layer, but then you're going to see the background. So, you have to keep that at one-hundred. So, basically what we did was blend four images together and we used the blending option of soft-light to kind of brighten up the walk way, because if we didn't have the soft-light, look how dark it gets. So, we add soft-light, and it kind of brightens up a couple little things. So, if we clicked off of some of these, we can kind of see what we will get, and really it's about playing around with photo shop and learning different techniques and being creative. So, this is what I want to do to be creative. I'm going to go ahead and, now you can mess with anything you want and the more opacity you add, the more of that image is going to show up. The more you drop it, the more of that image, you know it's just vice versus. So you can tell the image looks clean, the original image was this one right here. But, as you can tell we actually did a whole bunch to this to make it look really, really cool, and I'm actually going to keep it the way it is, right here!, and were going to move on."