You will see that the top layer starts to move, and you can even pull it off the screen. This will bring the overlay into a new tab. Of course, if you want to do things yourself, there’s a way to bring in overlays without using an action to do it.įirst, open the image that you want to use your overlay with. This may sound complicated, but Summerana’s Photoshop overlays come with a Photoshop action set which helps to take all of the stress away.įirst you have to install your Photoshop actions into the actions toolbar – don’t fret if you don’t know how, as we have already written a tutorial on this to help you out too! Once they are ready, you can follow the instructions in the actions to get everything imported. You bring your overlays into Photoshop every time you want to use them. Just start by saving your overlays in a folder you can find easily, where you know you will remember putting them. This means you can treat them like any other image file. Overlays work by fitting over the image you are using to create a particular effect, and they are image files themselves. Actually, there’s no need to install anything at all, unless you are utilizing actions to do the hard work for you (then you will need to install those actions). Let’s start by figuring out how to get your overlays into Photoshop in the first place. Where do you start? How do you use them? Here we’ll give an in-depth look into getting started with Photoshop overlays, and beyond. But if you’ve never used overlays before, it may seem like more of a challenge than you expected. I’m teaching my photography seminar there on Tuesday, and if you’re in the UK and you’re not one of the 300 or so photographers coming out to spend the day with me (and Brad), why the heck not? Come on out – you’ll learn a lot.When you download a new set of Photoshop overlays to use in your images, you will no doubt be excited to get started. Since we’re so blatantly talking about our books, what the heck, let’s share Peter’s trailer for the book (below), so you hear it from him himself (like that “him himself” part? I hope Kim doesn’t see this, because as an Editor she would shoot me).
Just right-click anywhere in the area surrounding your image and a pop-up menu appears (as seen below), and you can choose your new background color and/or add a pinstripe texture. I know we’ve shared this one here before, but not everybody stops by every day (which is a darn shame I might add), but I saw that my in-house book editor Kim Doty shared this tip from the “Killer Tips” section of my Lightroom book on her Facebook page (by the way you should totally follow Kim on Facebook – she’s always doing cool giveaways and sharing tips and images and stuff – here’ the link to her page).Īnyway, this tip Kim shared was a shortcut for changing the background color of the area surrounding your images in Lightroom.
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