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Overlays in Photoshop Don't Have to Look Cheap — Here's How to Actually Use Them
There’s a specific kind of embarrassment that only designers know. Someone asks you to add some “dramatic lighting” to a photo, and you spend forty-five minutes fiddling with Curves and Gradient Maps, fighting Photoshop like it personally offended you. Then you find out there’s a five-minute method using overlays that would have gotten you 90% of the way there in a fraction of the time. That’s basically my origin story with overlays.