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5 Photoshop Tricks You Don’t Know (Probably)

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In this video, I will go through 5 Photoshop tricks that you probably did not know.

Leave a comment letting me know how many of these tricks you already knew, and which were new to you!

Here’s a quick overview of the tricks and techniques shown in the video

#1: Advanced Blending Options

Uncheck “Transparency Shapes Layer” in the Layer Styles panel to make pixels blend differently when using blend modes.

#2: Precise Flare Window

You can bring up a special “Precise Flare Center” window to add a lens flare to exact locations in your photo.

#3: High Contrast Clouds

Instead of the usual clouds layer, you get when you render clouds, you can render high contrast clouds.

#4: Black and White Adjustment Layer For Color Control

You can use a Black and White Adjustment Layer to control the luminance values of specific colors in your photo.

#5: Open One Image In Two Windows

You can have the same photo open in two side-by-side windows, with one view zoomed in, and one view zoomed out.

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Marica
Marica
5 years ago

WOW…this is great…I am very new to PS…I know a little bit but nothing like this…you explain things very easy…I will be watching it again and taking notes…thank you…

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Charlie Bowman
Charlie Bowman
5 years ago

Tried to sign up for your tutorials but your site would not accept my email address. Why?

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Charlie Bowman
5 years ago

Charlie, I’m not sure, but I added you manually. I used the email that you used on this comment.

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Charlie
Charlie
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5 years ago

Thanks.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Charlie
5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Grady Mathias
Grady Mathias
5 years ago

Did not know these tips. Thanks!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Grady Mathias
5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Scott ONeal
Scott ONeal
5 years ago

Actually, none of them! Got some great ideas and thoughts on using that last tip with the 2 windows! Thanks 🙂

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Scott ONeal
5 years ago

You’re welcome! I’m glad you found them useful!

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somia zia
somia zia
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9 months ago

Hello great.It is very helpful.

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Laura Wildish
Laura Wildish
5 years ago

Did not know these tricks very interesting. I have sent you a Facebook friends request.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Laura Wildish
5 years ago

Thanks, glad you enjoyed them!

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brian cunningham
brian cunningham
5 years ago

didn’t know any of these tips, that’s why I have subscribed, I am very impressed!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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5 years ago

Thank you! 🙂

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Christian
Christian
5 years ago

The exact position for a lens flare is great but…Do you know how to do the same for Blur like zoom or radial? Thanks

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Mikey
Mikey
Reply to  Christian
5 years ago

If you make the layer a smart object, then you can edit where the radial/zoom blur originates from, therefor finding the right spot is easy.

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Miro
Miro
5 years ago

thank you… you are great

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Miro
5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Jurgen
Jurgen
5 years ago

I knew 3 of them because I always work with them on my images
#1. Advanced Blending Mode
#2. Precise Flare Window
#5. Open One Image In Two Windows

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dave birdsey
dave birdsey
5 years ago

I have been using photoshop for years and knew none of these. Thank you.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Thom Keach
Thom Keach
5 years ago

Thanks for the great tips. I didn’t know any of them as I’m fairly new to PS CC.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Flora Morris Brown
Flora Morris Brown
5 years ago

I just got Photoshop CC and when trying to access Frames in Scripted Patterns in Fill dialogue box, discovered it was no longer there. After some research I learned that Flame, Pic frame and Tree were now in Filter>Render. Only problem is they are grayed out on my computer.

I went over to Photoshop community to see if anyone had a solution, but none of the suggested fixes worked. Now what?

Thanks.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Flora Morris Brown
5 years ago

I’m not sure what the issues would be. Does your computer meet the requirements?

As you said, the Adobe community would be the place to go.
https://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/content

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Honor
Honor
5 years ago

I knew a couple of ’em, but three were new to me, and they were good ones! These are great! Thank you!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Honor
5 years ago

You’re welcome, Honor!

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Akosile Samuel
Akosile Samuel
5 years ago

Your’re great my brother!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Akosile Samuel
5 years ago

Thank you!

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Zakir Hossian
Zakir Hossian
5 years ago

Thanks for the great tips.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Zakir Hossian
5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Carol
Carol
5 years ago

Thank you for the tutorials. What a big help. I did not know these things. Can’t wait for Saturday. Be blessed!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Carol
5 years ago

Thank you, Carol!

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Wanda
Wanda
5 years ago

Awesome! And tour explain so clearly , prob better than any i have seen. Thank you so much!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Wanda
5 years ago

You’re welcome, Wanda!

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Trevor Barre
Trevor Barre
5 years ago

Hi and thanks for these great tips. Being a newbie I was grateful for finding a way to use the Lens Flare more precisely, though when trying to follow this video, my results were nothing like what was shown. After spending hours trying different options I finally discovered that it would only work when I changed my Info Panel Options Mouse Coordinates from cms to pixels.

I’m guessing it is because the Lens Flare Centre window is in pixels and so when I was trying to plot my X and Y coordinates on the photo in cms it was throwing the lens flare right off the canvas? Interested to know if this is the case or if I am just missing something in the video?

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Trevor Barre
5 years ago

Trevor,

Yes! The lens flare is in Pixels. Sorry for not mentioning it in the video.

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Zorro Gamarnik
Zorro Gamarnik
Reply to  Jesus Ramirez
3 years ago

Oh Thanks, I had problem with it too. Otherwise great tutorial. Thank you.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Zorro Gamarnik
3 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Marc
Marc
5 years ago

These are all new to me so thank you very much. I really like #4; l think I’ll be using this one quite a bit!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Marc
5 years ago

Cool! Thanks for your comment, Marc!

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Aditya Mittal
Aditya Mittal
5 years ago

I didn’t know any of the tricks…Thanks a lot…

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Aditya Mittal
5 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Raima
Raima
4 years ago

Yes, you are right I did not hear about these 5 tricks before. It is an excited tutorial for me. I really like all tricks here Thank you very much

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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4 years ago

You’re welcome!

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Jamie Sugarman
Jamie Sugarman
4 years ago

Brilliant! I’ve been using PS for 5 years and didn’t know any of these. Thank you.

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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4 years ago

You’re welcome, Jaime!

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Kevin
Kevin
4 years ago

Thank you for the tips, I did not know them, will try them out soon.
Kevin

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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4 years ago

You’re welcome, Kevin!

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Shelley Bezona
Shelley Bezona
4 years ago

Thanks for sharing……learned 4 new things today!..

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Shelley Bezona
3 years ago

Awesome, Shelley!

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Alex Breugelmans
Alex Breugelmans
3 years ago

Thought I knew it all 🙂
Brilliant to show us these tricks in a precise and short presentation. Excellent teacher!

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Jesus Ramirez
Jesus Ramirez
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Reply to  Alex Breugelmans
3 years ago

Thank you, Alex!

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Susie Learey
Susie Learey
3 years ago

This is probably something everyone already knows, but I have done a 30-minute search with no answer, so Idecided to bother you. When an app says “photo size must be 4000 px,” does this mean that one side or the other must be 4000 px?

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Abogados
Abogados
2 years ago

These are some great Photoshop Tips! Im just starting to use it and this will really help 🙂

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Fernando
Fernando
2 years ago

Thank you so much for this awesome advice/tutorial ♥!

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