Over the years, I have been processing thousands of images in photoshop, but the various layer blending modes don’t get used much. Except for overlay and soft light for when I do high pass output sharpening.
Very recently, I came across a specific requirement. A favorite photo had abrupt vignetting and the color of the sky in the upper corners were different in hue from the rest. I would normally use the clone stamp tool with low opacity, but I had one problem, there were some power lines that went right through the corner. Then I tried using clone stamping in a new transparent layer with blending mode set to color instead of normal. That gave me exactly what I needed, the color mismatch was fixed without doing anything funky with the power lines. The photos below illustrate this technique.
Original with color shift in corner
Problem with clone stamp tool using normal blend mode
Clone stamp tool using color blend mode
Using color blend mode in photoshop
#1 by Sandra - wedding photography lake tahoe on May 17, 2011 - 11:09 pm
The color is indeed more stark and alive. Thanks for sharing this, Joy!
#2 by Carrie on June 9, 2011 - 8:15 pm
Hey Joy. How did you get that vintage look in the sample pictures? Been trying to get the perfect vintage look but I can’t seem to figure it out.
Thanks