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Highlight Blowout

 

Creating a really stylized effect through the use of channels.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

10 Comments

  1. E. X. said on — April 30, 2008 @ 7:31 am

    I can’t use that ctrl+alt+tilda tool, but effect at the end looks rly cool.

  2. Velimirius said on — May 25, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

    Nice,works perfect :)

  3. Aviv said on — July 2, 2008 @ 4:16 am

    I have a problem when I press on the button next to the 1 key, on that wavey line.
    Bothing happens.

  4. Baron Mind said on — July 31, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

    In CS4, you need to use ctrl-alt-2 instead of ctrl-alt-tilde to load the luminosity as a selection.

  5. nicole said on — January 12, 2010 @ 8:13 pm

    control alt delete command option what? too many shortcuts to follow, not sure what versions of PS and which operating systems they all correspond to, but many don’t work for me, and I can’t seem to figure out the non-shortcut way of executing the commands…

  6. Any Tutoriols for this kind B&W!? - Photoshop Gurus - Tutorials, Resources and Latest on Photoshop Forum Pingback on — April 16, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

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  7. tom jones said on — June 25, 2010 @ 3:19 pm

    this key short cut is not working…option control tild….
    you need to redo this for the ones that dont have their short cuts that dont work…
    so frustrating to not be able to do this

  8. Gisèle Massie said on — September 13, 2010 @ 5:03 pm

    Hello Corey,

    Just to let you know that the shortcuts on this particular video, do not work on a PC… I tried, and tried again, I went through “color range” “highlights”, and I could not get any results… I am a little sad, because I liked that effect…

    Gisèle

  9. Steve Williams said on — January 2, 2011 @ 12:35 am

    Using CS5 PC Ctrl Alt #2 loads the luminosity of selected image.

  10. Lindsay said on — February 17, 2011 @ 4:01 am

    I have a PC, Windows XP and CS2 – the keyboard shortcuts work for me.

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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