Once you have a thorough understanding of blending modes in Photoshop, you’ll have access to all of the most powerful ways that layers can interact with one another. This means that color toning, exposure correction, image sharpening, photo compositing, and unique special effects are all just a few clicks away. In this tutorial, we break down all 27 blending modes that Photoshop offers, providing in-depth explanations and practical examples that are bound to help you get your creative work done faster and with impressive results.

Smart Objects can drastically improve the way you work in Photoshop, providing a non-destructive way to transform layers and apply Smart Filters, like Smart Blur, that can be changed or removed at any time.

Creating double exposures has come a long way since the early days of film. With Photoshop, we can quickly and easily combine multiple exposures to help tell the story of our travels, capture a bride and groom with the romantic environment of their wedding, or create out-of-this-world conceptual images that stretch our creativity.

Layer Styles are incredibly flexible and have wide ranging applications. From something as simple as giving text a three-dimensional appearance with the use of Drop Shadows to high-end compositing and retouching with Blend If and luminance blending.

In this tutorial, we’ll help you master every layer effect with practical examples like adding photorealistic text to an environment, creating a neon glow effect from scratch, using layer styles to add a natural glow to a light source and much more!

Layers are the foundation upon which all of Photoshop is built. Whether it’s text, a shape, or even a small brush stroke, chances are that it lives on its own layer and works in combination with several other layers to create the final image.