By Charlotte Reeves

Opacity and Blending Modes

Understanding layers in Photoshop is an essential editing skill that is often overlooked in editing tutorials. We've had so many requests for this topic that I've created a special 5-part Editing Toolbox series focusing on everything you need to know as a pet photographer, about Photoshop layers.

In this third episode we'll be discovering how to get layers interacting with each other using opacity and blending modes.

Feel free to skip through the video using the chapter links below, or watch from start to finish for a complete overview.

0:00 Introduction

0:25 Adjusting layer opacity

2:30 Layer blending modes

Watch the rest of the videos in this free 5 part series: 

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

If you like these quick tutorials, you'll love our premium Unleashed Edits - full start-to-finish editing tutorials in Lightroom and Photoshop. These are available in our membership (along with a tonne of amazing pet photography education). We hope to see you there!