Graphic thoughts: killing the background with photoshop modes

The author is back with another super quick, but radically useful, tip for you to use with Adobe Photoshop. It seems that almost weekly he runs into a situation where a client gives him her logo and he needs to quickly add it to a graphic design, but the logo is surrounded by a solid color. In other words, all the client has is a logo that isn't on a transparent background. Understandably, that's just not what most clients have. So here's a quick tip that could save you the time of cutting out all that white space when all you really want is for that logo to be overlaid on your screen. Steps are: 1. Choose an image with an unwanted background. 2. Scroll through your mode options. 3. Choose a mode that works for your image.