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  • Class Today Fall 2025
    • Week 1a - August 26
  • Course Info
    • Instructor
    • Introduce Yourself
    • Course Syllabus
    • Course Schedule
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    • WCC Credit Class Schedule
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  • Projects
    • Project 1 - Output Test
      • 01 - Assignment 1 - Output Test Observations
      • 02 Step-by-step Instructions for Assignment 1
      • 03 - Output Test "How-to" Videos
      • 04 - About Color Space, Bit Depth, File Formats
      • John Paul Caponigro on Color Management Technique
      • Printing Info and Print Labs
      • Viewing Photos for Color Management
    • Project 2 - Interpretive Printing
      • 01 - Assignment 2 Resources
      • 02 - Assignment 2 - Interpretive Directions Form
      • 03- Color Harmonies
      • 04 - More Color Ideas
        • Color Psychology and Contrast
      • Adobe Color - A Color Tool in Photoshop
      • Black and White Conversions
      • Blending Modes in Photoshop
      • Brushes
      • Color - Do You See What I See?
      • Lightroom Presets and Profiles
      • Photoshop Actions
      • Split Toning and Duotones
      • Textures
      • Word Cloud Graphics
    • Project 3 - Scanogram
      • Scanogram Resources
    • Project 4 - Design Your Own Assignment
      • Assignment 4 Proposal
      • Assignment 4 Resources
    • Project 5 - Vellum Print
  • Theme-based Series
    • Theme-based Series Proposal
    • Theme-based Series Evaluation
    • Theme-based Series Examples
    • Theme-based Series Resources
  • Skill Exercises
    • 01. Build a Personal Web Site
    • 02 - Photoshop Review
    • 03 - Build Texture Collection
      • 01 - Creating Textures
      • 02 - Blending and Blending Modes
    • 04 - Advanced Masking
    • 05 - Tone Curves
    • 06 - Color Toning in Photoshop and Lightroom
    • 07 - Blending Layers
    • 08 - Displacement Mapping
    • 09 - Exploring HDR, Cinemagraphs and Double Exposure
    • 10 - Actions and Watermarks
    • 11- More Actions and Droplets
    • 12 - Brush Making
    • 13 - Liquify and Beauty
    • 14 - Spark Video and Spark Page
      • Exercise 14 Spark Demo Projects
    • 15 - Personal Portfolio Web Site
    • 16 - Word Clouds
    • 17 - Splatter Effect
    • 18 - Luminosity Masks
    • 19 - Smart Object Templates
    • 20 - One Sheet Zine
    • Ernst Haas
  • Reference Books
  • Resources
    • About Critique
    • Adobe Portfolio Web Sites
    • Aspect Ratio and Resizing
    • Photoshop Actions and Watermarks
    • Actions in Photoshop
    • Blend If... Lots of Info
    • Blending and Blending Modes
    • Blur Gallery
    • Book Making
      • Create an Accordion Book
      • Zines
      • Paper
    • Brushes
      • 01 - Brush Tool Basics
      • 02 - Create a Custom Brush
      • 03 - Make Your Own Photoshop Brush
      • 04 - Lots of Brush Resources
      • 05 - Create Your Own Light Ray Brushes
    • Cinemagraphs
    • Color Grading videos
    • Color Theory
    • Compositing
    • Composition
    • Contrast Presentation
    • Creative Edges in Photoshop
    • Curves
    • Double Exposure Effect
    • Gradients in Photoshop
    • Google Sites Info
    • HDR and Panorama
    • i1 Profiler
    • Intentional Camera Movement
    • Instagram Resources
    • John Berger - Ways of Seeing
    • Levitation in Photoshop
    • Lightroom Book Making
    • Lightroom Classic Reference Books
    • Lightroom Color Grading
    • Lightroom Masking
    • Lightroom Mobile & Web
    • Lightroom Presets and Profiles
    • Lightroom Tidbits
      • Lightroom Presets
      • Lightroom Profiles
      • Lightroom Thumbnail Icons
      • Lightroom Quick Develop
    • Luminosity Mask
    • Luminosity Masking
    • Magazines and Blogs
      • Magazines
      • Photo Blogs
    • Mandalas
    • Phonography
      • Snapseed
    • Photographers
      • Ben Heine
      • Bruce Dale - National Geographic
      • Cindy Sherman
      • Dan Burkholder
      • Dave Lehl, Snowboard Photographer
      • Erik Johansson
      • Jeremy Cowart
      • Jon Jacobsen
      • Lewis Hine
      • Mark Halladay
      • Mike Moats Tiny Landscapes
      • Monte Nagler
      • Moose Peterson
      • Phil Borges
      • Richard Avedon - "Borrowed Dogs"
      • Stewart Nelson
      • The Photo League
      • Vivian Maier - Street Photographer and Nanny
    • Photo-Mandalas
    • Photoshop Reference Manual 2020
    • Photoshop Tools Ebook
    • Production Center Hours
    • Printing
      • Shirley Cards
      • Rendering the Print: the Art of Photography
    • Retouching Resources
      • Beauty Retouching
      • Retouching Skin
      • Some Basic Retouching Resources
      • Beauty Retouching eBooks
    • Sharpening
    • Types of Photography
    • Web for Photographers
    • Word Clouds
    • Tripods
  • Interesting Finds
    • a bunch of good stuff
    • Cinemagraphs - 40 Examples
    • Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris
    • First Wildlife Photos In National Geographic
    • Gry Garness - Photo Retouching
    • How Film Was Made
    • John Paul Caponigro Color Management and Printing
    • Royalty Free Music and more
    • Texture Blending Secrets
    • Textures, Borders and Helen Bradley
    • The History of Photoshop
PHO 228
BlendingModesLayerTech.pdf

The Ultimate Visual Guide to Understanding Blend Modes

Aaron Nace  at Phlearn.com has a good video on using textures.

Aaron Nace, again, with "How to Add a Background Texture to a Portrait in Photoshop"

Brooke Shaden has a nice collection of free textures.

Photoshop Blend Modes Explained

More good info from CG Textures about how Blend Modes work.

"Blend Modes 101" is a basic introduction to blend modes video  from Adobe.

The Beauty of Blending Modes by John Paul Caponigro uses Blending Modes on Adjustment Layers.

The magic of "Blend If..."

Photoshop Blend Modes Explained - Photo Blog StopA high-level view of what the various blend modes do, then digs deeper into the nuts and bolts of the blend modes by explaining some of the math involved.
PhotoshopCAFE-Blending-modes.pdf

José Ramirez explains all the Blend Modes

These charts show how the blend modes interact mathematically from one layer to the next. It  is from a Lynda.com video by Deke McClelland,

Blend Mode Formulas.pdf

The Beauty of Blending Modes by John Paul Caponigro uses Blending Modes on Adjustment Layers. Good for artists.

The Beauty of Blending Modes.pdf

"Blend Modes Crash Course" from Jesus Ramirez is a good intro video. 

This is the short version.

Photo Artistry texture Tutorials.mp4

Contact me: msmith66@wccnet.edu

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