This video demonstrates how the Mixer brush interactively blends separate colors as though they were wet, creating a painterly effect. Clean your brush to resample the colors for ultimate control.

See the Cloning tool in action in this video and discover how to remove unwanted pixels. A separate layer makes it easy to isolate and create a smooth, blended effect.

This movie demonstrates the new option the Patch tool offers for content aware filling. This makes it easy to target an area for removal, patch it over, and then seamlessly blend it with the rest of the image.

Learn how you can use the colors in one image to affect another with a Gradient Map. Sample the colors you wish to apply, and experiment with blending and opacity to find the best fit for the new image.

Join Ethan Malasky, Adobe senior engineering manager, for a fun, immersive presentation in which he "interacts" with cartoonish characters to illustrate the various graphical features found on the web today and the ones coming soon. Malasky will cover:• The history of the graphical web• The background and details behind SVG, Canvas, and WebGL• Next-generation CSS features like CSS Shaders, Compositing, and Blending

Layer Groups - they’re not just for organizing your layers! In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates 5 ways to use Layer Groups to create special effects in Photoshop.

Technically, even a straight cut is a transition, but for video editing, we usually think of a transition as a special effect than blends one image into another. This lesson shows you how to add, adjust, and remove special transition effects.

Blending modes are one of the most creative areas in Photoshop. Let Infinite Skills author, Andy Anderson, take you on a tour of this amazing area in Adobe Photoshop.

Learn how to blend images together with Brush Effects inside of Adobe Photoshop Touch.

This simple process will demonstrate how to colorize a black and white image with Adobe Photoshop Touch. Learn how to use layers and Blend Modes to make this painting process easy.

In yet another user requested episode, Colin takes you back to 1994 and shows you all the things your missing if you’ve been flattening, and rasterizing your complex Photoshop layers just to get them to work in FinaCut Pro 7. You might be amazed to see that lots has changed since 1994, including Layer Styles that instantly update and give you complete creative freedom!

Lean to combine multiple exposures together into one composite shot with Adobe Photoshop CS6. This tutorial demonstrates stacking images and using advanced blend modes to combine multiple images together.

Learn some creative techniques for replacing the night sky with advanced masking, and Smart Objects. Also discover the best eposure settings for capturing the detail in the Milky Way galaxy.

Discover some creative new ways to use the new features found in the Contend Aware Move Tool. This tutorial will go beyond the basics and introduce you to some very creative ways to move and extend your images.

Many advanced photographers are shooting multiple exposures these days in an attempt to blend them together and achieve the perfect composition. In this episode, Colin will reveal a simple one-click feature that will do all the work for you and the result looks like the same as if you took hours to paint a complex Layer Mask.

Spend less time and effort to liven up your courses. Choose from attractive, professionally designed themes that blend backgrounds, styles, fonts, and layouts. Apply them across projects to maintain a consistent look and feel. Customize themes to suit your requirements.

In this video we'll explore Illustrator's Appearance panel. This panel not only lets you make changes to properties like opacity, blending mode, stroke, and fill, it also gives you powerful control over the effects you apply to objects.

Russell Brown offers two different approaches for creating a magical effect by painting with light on an image in Photoshop Touch.

Create unique textures with your fingertips using Adobe Eazel, one of several Photoshop companion apps for the iPad. New connectivity lets you send the design from your tablet directly to Photoshop CS5 on your desktop or laptop computer. Apply the texture to another image and refine with layer styles and blend modes to get just the look you want.

Russell Brown shows you how to combine three different exposures into one image using blend modes in Photoshop CS5.

Once again a customer question turns into an episode with the idea of something Colin calls Super Zoom. Colin shows you how to combine a high resolution still image with video so the camera can zoom into macro levels without the image getting pixelated. Using After Effects motion reframes and color correction, this can be achieved to create a seamless blend between video and a still.

Russell Brown uses the Camera Fill feature to create live lighting effects with a flashlight. Learn to create layers with custom lighting effects using your tablet camera, a flashlight, and Photoshop Touch.

Russell Brown uses the Camera Fill feature to create beautiful textured backgrounds and layers. Learn to create custom patterns and textures using your tablet camera and Photoshop Touch.

Russell Brown starts with a composite image and then uses the Blur filter and the Add Fade effect to create a dynamic directional blur effect.

Use Add Fade to combine your images. Select from predefined fade effects, determine the angle and direction of the fade, and adjust the highlights and shadows to get the lighting effect you desire.

Learn how tablet publications are reinventing the brand advertising paradigm by blending the design fidelity and expression of a print advertisement with interactivity that captivates readers. Brand advertisers to date have grappled with templatized, commoditized web design offering limited brand expression — but now digital publications allow an immersive experience that drives not only consumer engagement, but also business results. You'll hear from a leading brand advertiser how digital marketers and ad agencies can leverage this greater engagement with readers. Publishers and advertisers alike will be inspired about adding more avenues for readers to communicate and connect.

Russell Brown shows how to use the Google Image Search feature in Photoshop Touch to create a project using images available on the web.

In this episode, Russell demonstrates how to enhance a photo by adding dramatic sunbeams. You'll learn how to use a combination of filter effects and blending modes to achieve this look.

In this quick tutorial, Russell demonstrates how to combine two photographs using a gradient mask.

In this quick tip, Julieanne demonstrates the most flexible way to create a transparent circle around an object.

No need for expensive contact lenses, we’ll show you how to use the incredible planar tracker in mocha AE to track your eyes, export them as a Mocha shape layer and apply effects in After Effects to create that “white iris of the zombie” look. Another added feature in this episode is how to use Refine Matte to control the feather, spread and choke of the mocha shape layer. This effect gives you control of how much of the original iris shows around the edge stopping the new white iris from blending into the rest of the eye.

Video Highlights: Watch how Photomerge Style Match analyzes the stylistic qualities of any photo you choose and then automatically applies those qualities to another photo. With its enhanced blending capabilities, Photomerge Panorama fills in jagged edges as it automatically stitches together multiple horizontal or vertical photos.

Video Highlights: See how to make unwanted elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush, which beautifully blends even the most complex background. Also, instantly fix old or torn photos so you can make new prints.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates how to create a single vector logo out of multiple type and shape layers, specify a consistent size, apply a style and save the entire creation as a Tool Preset! In addition, Julieanne shows how to add a scan of your signature to any photograph with a simple change of a layer blend mode.

We create a fantastic time-lapse using Photoshop CS5 Extended. Thanks to the images from James at www.deepspaceplace.com. Unfortunately he set the white balance on Auto and it needed to be fixed. Not as easy as you would think! We use the color blend mode, and the blend if sliders to fix it. But we also keep the subtle color of the planets.

In this episode, Russell Brown reveals a unique way to blend Smart Objects together for advanced image adjustment control.

Discover the wonders of Overlay and Hard Light for special blending techniques when working with portrait images. Special thanks to professional photographer Joel Grimes, and the talented modeling of Jessica Mion, and Moses Sumney.

Learn some of the basics of working with Camera Raw images as Smart Objects. Also included in this tutorial are some advanced blending techniques.

See how to easily change a photograph into a painting or create unique artistic effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates several ways to use leading lines in order to guide a viewer’s eye through an image including leading towards the primary subject, keeping movement within the frame, and adding tension to a composition.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how the addition of color as well as supporting imagery can help reinforce the mood and message of a composite image that a single photograph may fail to do on it’s own.

Watch how Illustrator and After Effects can be used together to create organic animations using simple masks copied and pasted between the two applications. Also see how the Twirl tool in Illustrator can be used to distort paths and make it look as if “tendrils” are growing outward. This all comes together in After Effects by setting the first vertex and ensuring your blended masks don’t flip inside out.

RC has a Photoshop tutorial where he gets creative by adding textures to an image and experimenting with blend modes. Scott Kelby stops by the set to share 10 little-known tips for use with Photoshop.

Corey has a tutorial on using Adobe Illustrator's blend tool to create some super text effects. Special guest Matt Kloskowski shares some easy alternatives for watermarking your photos.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne reveals some basic compositing techniques in Photoshop CS5 that she used to illustrate the feeling and mood of Iceland. Discover how easy it is to combine multiple images together using Layers, masking, blend modes, and transparency in Photoshop CS5.

Learn how to blend the digital and the physical from natural/accurate color definitions to "presses" as a service. Nathan Moroney, color scientist for Hewlett Packard Labs, will present ways to take your beautiful digital work to tangible, physical creations. Moroney will explore emerging color print technologies ranging from pixels with color names to novel finishing techniques and print substrates.

In this Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 tutorial, Karl Soule shows how to adjust which areas of the video are affected by each of the 3 wheels, and how to blend the color effects better.

Create an effect using the blend of two great plugins: Digieffects' Damage and Video CoPilot's Twitch.

In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 tutorial, Karl Soule shows how to adjust which areas of the video are affected by each of the 3 wheels, and how to blend the color effects better.

A watermark overlay can personalize your digital photos. Learn how to create a custom watermark by applying transparency and blend modes to an editable text layer.

Today we've got a really nice and simple tutorial demonstrating how to quickly add a beautiful, non destructive vignette effect to any image using Photoshop layers and blending modes.

Fine-tune sepia tints with gradient maps and blending modes.

Quickly produce visual effects ranging from artistic to realistic.

Interactively blend canvas colors with lifelike painting strokes.

David Kelley talks about that middle ground where some of the best creative agencies live. Using tools like Adobe Illustrator to build better User eXperiences for Silverlight and WPF, from marketing Brand Jordan to retail.

Web and application designers use Fireworks to optimize graphics, create polished text documents, add interactivity to prototypes, preview prototypes in mobile device emulators, and export to Flash Catalyst.

Realistically mix paint, blending brush and canvas colors with the new Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5. Create a painting from scratch or add painterly effects to a photograph.

Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

New in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended - Easily take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions with natural and realistic painting effects. The new Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip to paint with subtle color blends, or you can use a dry brush to blend a photo’s colors to create a beautiful painting. New Bristle Tips enable you to easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and you can experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.

Colin Smith will show you how to take multiple photographs with a shallow depth of field and blend them all together into a single image that is sharp and in focus. This is a great technique especially for product and macro photographers.

Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost shows you how Photoshop CS4 will help you with it’s intelligent scaling, alignment and auto-blending.

Mike shows you a trick he learned from Russell Browns at Adobe Max; how to take a Camera Raw image of a Samurai Warrior shot on a green screen background and cut him out using masks and Hue Saturation.

Learn how to Combine multiple images in different layers for a sophisticated composition and play with the overlay and other options to completely change the overall effect of your photo.

Renowned photographer Marcus Bell talks about the tools he uses to capture those fleeting and precious moments in everyday life.

Learn how to seamlessly combine images in this Adobe Photoshop CS4 tutorial. Russell Brown shows you how simple it is using the amazing Auto Align and Auto Blend functions.

Richard Harrington reveals new tools for aligning and auto-blending layers with panoramic images in Photoshop CS4 at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Discover how to combine two 3D objects and simulate a realistic shadow in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. Russell Brown covers the new Auto Blend feature and more in this Photoshop Tutorial.

Learn about new productivity enhancements in Premiere Pro CS4. Karl Soule takes a look at blending modes, improved timecode, and new ways to use nested sequences in this Premiere Pro tutorial.

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Eran Stern demonstrates how you can create the illusion of time bending with a special focus on the correct way of using the CC Time Blend FX.

In this episode, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to get better compositing results with Light Wraps - an effect used to blend the background light and foreground elements more convincingly during a composite.

Use improved Auto-Align and Auto-Blend features to correct vignetting, extend depth of field, or create a scene collage or spherical panorama.

Continuing with the Victor Vector project, putting the various animation and graphical components together and introducing sound. How to use Movie Clip filters, blends, and alter the speed of a motion tween with custom ease in/ease out.

Kevin Ames shows you how to use Photoshop CS4's integral new components, including Adobe Bridge CS4. Recorded at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Richard Harrington shows you how to use auto-blend to combine multiple exposures in Photoshop CS4 .

Explore effects beyond color correction and transitions. Add a four-color gradient. Change the blending mode. Save effects as presets and apply them.

Remove the background behind lightning and flame images in Photoshop CS3 so you can add special Layer Effects, and avoid Blending Modes when necessary.

Highglights of Compostmodern 08, an interdisciplinary design conference that explores the ways that design and business can blend through the lens of sustainability.

Jim DiVitale shows Photoshop's ability to blend a photograph of steam into a coffee cup using a blend mode to quickly merge these very different images into one.

Learn how to import virtual sets from Cinema 4D into After Effects, and how to use chroma keying, masks, mattes, layers and blend modes for compositing.

Forget the Retouching tools, get the same results with some blend-mode magic. Find out where these tools come from historically, and how to control the flow of the viewer's eye.

Discover how to blend and merge your images in Photoshop for a large panoramic picture.

Continuing with the Victor Vector project, putting the various animation and graphical components together and introducing sound. How to use Movie Clip filters, blends, and alter the speed of a motion tween with custom ease in/ease out