Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, covering Photoshop CS3

1 I Open up the wall.jpg file. This will act as your background for the image and this file will become the bottom layer of our multi-layered working file. The first thing you notice about the wall is that the darker details are not pronounced enough. Perhaps the original photograph was a little overexposed. To remedy this, drag the background layer onto the create a new layer button at the bottom of the layers palette to duplicate it. Target the duplicate layer and change the blending mode of the layer to linear burn. Reduce the opacity ...