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Color Opacity with RGBA

13 Nov 2011

I love messing with opacity, when alpha opacity filters began to be supported in the early 2000s I was a very happy girl. However, the filter was limiting because it would apply to everything within that element.

The next solution was transparent pngs to get the look of a transparent background color.

However, I recently discovered rgba …

Photoshop Tutorial: Love Your Masks

14 Aug 2011

It is one of those vague memories, where I remember the content of the conversation though not the where, or who. I think it was 3 years ago, it might have been in the coffeeshop of my old collective, likely well into the evening sitting at a table with my old macbook. Perhaps a close friend, or a complete stranger …

Photoshop Tutorial: From Day to Night

17 Jul 2011

A few weeks ago I was working on a piece and I wanted to use a picture of a specific location, and the only shots I had were in daylight. This tutorial steps through transitioning a photo from daytime lighting to nighttime through the use of Photoshop adjustment filters. Adjustment filters provide the same effects as the standard adjustment functions, …