Photoshop Tutorial: Tearing A Photo To Reveal Another

Step 18: Add Another New Layer And Set Its Blend Mode To "Overlay"

We're almost done! We're just going to add a few more highlights and shadows to the image. Click on the New Layer at the bottom of the Layers palette once again, and when the new layer appears at the top of the Layers palette, set its blend mode to Overlay:

Grab your Brush Tool once again, and up in the Options Bar, lower the opacity of the brush down to about 20%:

Then with black as your Foreground color, paint along any areas where you want to enhance the shadows in the image. I want to enhance the shadows along the sides of the woman's face, under her chin, maybe a little around her eyes, and on the side of her mouth, so I'm simply going to paint over those areas with my brush. Since I've lowered the opacity of my brush to 20%, I can slowly build up shadows by painting a stroke, releasing my mouse, and then painting another stroke over the same area as needed. If you make a mistake, simply press Ctrl+Z (Win) / "Command+Z" (Mac) to undo the brush stroke and continue painting:

Then press X on your keyboard to switch your Foreground color to white and paint on the image to enhance any highlight areas. I'm going to lower the size of my brush and click a few times in each of her eyes to really brighten them:

I'm going to paint one or two strokes around her nose and chin as well with a larger brush to enhance those highlights a little.

When you're happy with the highlights and shadows in your image, you're done!

Here, after enhancing the highlights and shadows, is my final result:

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