Video Tutorials
How to Blend a Photo Into a Polaroid Frame Using Blending Modes (Without It Looking Plunked)
There’s a very specific kind of bad that happens when you drop a photo on top of a texture or frame and it just… sits there. No interaction, no depth, no relationship between the two layers. It looks like a sticker. It looks like clip art. It looks, as Pete Collins memorably puts it in this KelbyOne tutorial, like it was plunked. Maximum plunkage. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit, especially early on when I was cranking out quick composites for clients and thinking opacity was the only tool I had for blending layers together.