How To Make Your Photos Look Awesome With Photoshop in Seconds (With Absolutely No Knowledge)

I'm relatively new to instructables. This is my second instructable. I hope you like it!

This is a very simple method for getting great looking photos in seconds with photoshop using a blending mode called "overlay". Below you will see the before and after pictures. Alright, let's get started.

NOTE: If you already know your way around photoshop this is a simple method:
duplicate your image layer
set the new layer's blending mode to overlay
play around with the opacity.

Step 1 Open 'Er Up

The first thing you need to do is open up your images in Photoshop. I'll give you a quick breakdown of the menu we will be using (the layers palette).

The first thing to notice is the pull-down menus. There are many blend mode options (picture 3). We are going to use overlay. If you want a run down on all of the options check out:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-77e9a.html

Then we have two spaces to enter a value for opacity (0-100) and fill (0-100). Changing the opacity changes the amount we can see of the layers below.

Comments

[Cyndal]

Thank you SO very much! I used to use PhotoShop just for drawing but now I can actually spruce up my pictures as well. lol. Easy way to make my deployment photos more awesome

[uhsnamih]

awesome tutorial, hi5