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Transform & Distort

Retouching

Blending Modes
Transform &

Distort
 Transform & Distort
What is Transform?
The Transform feature allows users to alter their object or selection in a variety of
ways, such as scale, rotate, distort, or flip (mirror).

What is Distort?
The Distort tool in Photoshop allows you to straighten a rectangular object in a
photo taken at an angle. You can also use it to skew a graphic or artwork to fit the
side of a packaging or box.
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The Skew, Distort, Perspective, and Warp tools in the Edit > Transform menu are the base tools used to

distort images.

As an example, I will distort this image and place it on the laptop screen shown in the second photo.
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Step 1. Open Both Photos
Open both photos in Photoshop and position them next to each other. Drag the photo you want to distort onto

the other picture.

This action will create a new layer.

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Step 2. Scale and Position
Scale the new layer to the size of the photo frame. Use the Move tool (Shortcut “V”) to drag the scaled

image over the photo frame.

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Step 3. Distort the Image
Select the layer with the photo that you want to place on the laptop screen. Go to Edit > Transform and

select “Distort.”
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Step 3. Distort the Image
To distort the image, click and drag the corner handles until it fits in the laptop screen.
Retouching
 Retouching
What is Retouching?
Retouching means the elimination of all the imperfections from a photo, which
usually includes colour and tone correction, blemishes and under-eye circles
removal, change of brightness, contrast and saturation. Apart from it, the photo
retouching process sometimes also involves airbrushing, which means removing
certain elements from the background or adding the elements that initially weren’t
in the photo.
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Spot Healing Brush
The Spot Healing Brush tool is a powerful and versatile tool for retouching and removing imperfections
in Photoshop, making it a popular choice for photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists.

Find Spot Healing Brush

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Spot Healing Brush
The Spot Healing Brush tool is a powerful and versatile tool for retouching and removing imperfections
in Photoshop, making it a popular choice for photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists.

Before After
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Dodge Tool
The Dodge tool in Photoshop is a digital image editing tool that allows you to selectively brighten or
lighten areas of an image. It works by decreasing the exposure of the pixels in the area you brush over,
making them appear brighter or lighter. It's often used to enhance details in shadows or to add highlights
to specific areas of an image,
Find Dodge tool
Dodge Tool
Retouching
The Dodge tool in Photoshop is a digital image editing tool that allows you to selectively brighten or
lighten areas of an image. It works by decreasing the exposure of the pixels in the area you brush over,
making them appear brighter or lighter. It's often used to enhance details in shadows or to add highlights
to specific areas of an image,
Before After
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Sponge Tool
The Sponge tool in Photoshop is a brush tool that allows you to selectively adjust the saturation and
desaturation of an image. It can be used to intensify or reduce the color saturation of specific areas in a
photo.
Find Sponge tool
 Retouching
Sponge Tool
The Sponge tool in Photoshop is a brush tool that allows you to selectively adjust the saturation and
desaturation of an image. It can be used to intensify or reduce the color saturation of specific areas in a
photo.
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Red Eye Tool
Retouching
Red eye tools in Photoshop are tools that are used to correct or remove red-eye effect from photographs.
Red-eye is a common issue that occurs when the flash of a camera reflects off the retina of a person or
animal's eyes, resulting in a red or orange glow in the eyes in the photograph. The red eye tools in
Photoshop are designed to specifically target and correct this issue.
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Red Eye Tools
Retouching
Red eye tools in Photoshop are tools that are used to correct or remove red-eye effect from photographs.
Red-eye is a common issue that occurs when the flash of a camera reflects off the retina of a person or
animal's eyes, resulting in a red or orange glow in the eyes in the photograph. The red eye tools in
Photoshop are designed to specifically target and correct this issue.

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Blending

Modes
 Blending Modes
DESCRIBING BLENDING MODES
Blending modes in Photoshop are a powerful tool that allows you to blend layers
and adjust the way they interact with each other.

Think in terms of the following colors when visualizing a blending mode’s effect:
The base color is the original color in the image.
The blend color is the color being applied with the painting or editing tool.
The result color is the color resulting from the blend.
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PHOTOSHOP BLENDING MODES, ALL EXPLAINED
For these examples we use two images, and set them up so you can understand how they
work.
A texture with a grayscale bar added to the right
is used as the bottom layer, to add texture.
The top layer is a human face with a colored
bar added to the left.This makes it uniform in
how to view each mode.
When comparing modes, pay special attention
to what happens to the grayscale and color bar,
because this will give you extra clues to what’s
happening.
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PHOTOSHOP BLENDING MODES IN GROUPS
PHOTOSHOP BLENDING MODES ARE SEPARATED INTO SIX GROUPS
Normal: No special blending takes place, only opacity
effects these
Darken: The result darkens the image. White is invisible on
the Blend layer.
Lighten: The result lightens the image. Black is invisible on
the Blend Layer.
Contrast: Increases Contrast. 50% gray is invisible on the
blend layer.
Comparative: Difference between images is apparent, this
makes them useful for working with different layers
Color: Works on different color qualities
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NORMAL BLEND MODE
There are no special blending methods happening here. Lower opacity to show the layer
beneath. (Shown at 80%)
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DISSOLVE BLENDING MODE
This is the same as normal except no transparency effects are applied to pixels. The blend
happens by dithering pixels on or off. Makes it look like snow on the picture
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THE DARKEN MODES
DARKEN
Any areas that are darker on the base color will replace the lighter colors on the blend layer.
Resulting in a darker image.
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MULTIPLY
With the exception of white on the blend colors, each color is darkened. This is like taking
two transparencies, placing them over each other and holding up to the light. White is
ignored.
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COLOR BURN
Darkens the base color and the blend color, increases contrast. Produces a darker and more
saturated result. Blending with white produces no change.
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LINEAR BURN
Decreases the brightness of the base color. Blending with white produces no change.
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DARKER COLOR
The darkest of the base or blend pixels display. The colors aren’t altered
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THE LIGHTEN MODES
LIGHTEN
The opposite of Darken. The resulting color that displays is the lightest of the base or blend
color.
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SCREEN
This is the opposite of multiply. This is like taking multiple exposures on a single film frame.
Black is ignored.
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COLOR DODGE
Opposite of Color Burn. The base color influences and contrast is reduced. Blending with
black produces no change.
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LINEAR DODGE (ADD)
Opposite of Linear Burn. Increases brightness. Blending with black produces no change.
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LIGHTER COLOR
Opposite of Darker color. The lighter of the base or blend pixels display. The colors aren’t
altered (New in CS3)
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CONTRAST
Contrast Blending Modes. The Blending Modes in this category are a mixture between the
Darken and the Lighten categories.
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OVERLAY THE CONTRAST MODES
If the colors on the blend color are darker than the base they are multiplied. If they are
lighter they are screened. This produces saturated colors and pleasant contrast. Blending
with 50% gray has produces no change.
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SOFT LIGHT
Similar to overlay but will less contrast because it uses darken and lighten rather than
mulptiply screen.
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HARD LIGHT
Similar to overlay but will less contrast because it uses darken and lighten rather than
mulptiply screen. This is like shining a harsh spotlight at the image.If the blend is darker
than 50% gray if multiplies, if its lighter than 50% gray it screens.
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VIVID LIGHT
Works like Hard light but uses color dodge and color burn rather than Multiply and screen.
Produces a higher contrast image than Hard light.
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LINEAR LIGHT
The blend color is the light source. If the blend color is lighter than 50% gray, the result is
dodged by increasing brightness. If the blend color is darker than 50% gray, the result is
burned and brightness is reduced.
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PIN LIGHT
Where the colors are 50% gray on the blend layer, the base layer shows through. Lighter or
darker than 50% gray will display on the blend color.
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HARD MIX
Reduces the image to solid red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta, white, or black. These
are the primary colors. No gradients will be displayed in the image. This produces a
posterized effect.
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DIFFERENCE
The lightest colors are subtracted from the darker colors. White inverts the base color and
black produces no change. This psychedelic blend mode is useful for aligning layers
together, because it shows the difference between the layers.
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EXCLUSION
Similar to the difference mode, but with less saturation. The result is very little luminance is
shown for the blend pixels.
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COLOR

The color from the blend color is used. The luminosity (Image detail) from the base pixels
are used. This means only the color shows and not the detail.
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HUE

Uses the color hue of the blend color. The Saturation and the luminosity of the base pixels
are used.
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SATURATION

Uses the color saturation of the blend color. The hue and the luminosity of the base pixels
are used.
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LUMINOSITY

All the image detail from the blend pixels is shown with the color from the base color.
Opposite of Color. This makes the details show, but retains the color of the top layer.