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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

by Lesa Snider
August 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
989 pages
34h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Hiding Backgrounds with Blending Sliders

If the subject of your image is radically brighter or darker than its background, you’ll want to sit up and pay attention to this section. While blend modes are pretty powerful in their own right (and several of ’em can instantly pulverize a white or black background), another set of blending options in the Layer Style dialog box can eat backgrounds for lunch—nondestructively!

Photoshop gives you a few different ways to open the Layer Style dialog box (Figure 7-18). Once you’ve activated the image layer you want to work with, open the dialog box using one of the following methods:

  • Double-click the layer’s thumbnail in the Layers panel.

  • Click the fx at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Blending Options.

  • Choose LayerLayer StyleBlending Options.

Note

The Blending sliders don’t work on locked background layers. So before you use them, you have to unlock the background layer by single-clicking its padlock icon in the Layers panel.

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