Photoshop Quicktip: More contrast using the Overlay Blending mode.

One of the important thing is that a picture needs contrast. In photoshop are there many ways to add contrast to your image.  Of the ways to to this is by adding a new Adjustment Layer and set the blending mode to Overlay.

Lets show this by opening this image, from Pixabay.

Now duplicate the layer by using Cmd or Ctrl J and set the blending mode on Overlay

To control the effect you can add a layers mask and reduce the Opacity of the layer.

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