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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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