The amount of effort you put into this is simply amazing. I have a far better understanding of the Blend-If option and the panel now that I have watched your last two deep dives. I may have to watch it a couple of more times for it to sink in. Our TK9 community is so lucky to have you as an ambassador for the tool. I am looking forward to more Deep Dive sessions.
I do enjoy the TK Friday videos a lot and like most weeks, last weeks was easy to follow. However, I felt that some of this weeks video was too rushed and could have benefitted from slowing down a bit and explaining more of what you were doing. An extra 5 or 6 minutes could have made the operations you were doing easier to understand and I've watched the video 4 times now so maybe experimentation and practice is needed on my part along with another couple of viewings before it all clicks. As always, very informative and helpful. Thanks!
I think the center panel is too cluttered. I like how the old legacy blend if works. Tony does a good job of reconfiguring and simplifying the panel. Hopefully he will look at this one again. He simplified the mask calculator. I am sure he can do it here as well.
Dave, a very useful video. May I add a couple of points that some may find useful - the overlay mask view combines Blend If settings and layer mask, so if you enable this when brushing out an effect such as the sky highlights in your video then you can see where the brushing is needed - if you have combined target/exclude and luminosity Blend If settings on same layer then ctrl/command-click on the red disable mask cross in Cx/Combo will turn them both on and off together, saves having to turn both target/exclude and grey on and off together - one way to try and get your head around target/exclude that helped me during the beta testing was to get a colour wheel image and then put a black solid fill layer on top. You can then play with the target/exclude settings including the slider to see which colour gets impacted. I found getting the concept clear made it easier to experiment on actual images
Thanks again Dave for another "mind expanding" tutorial...This two part segment on "Blend If" is some really great information that allows one to fine-tune and finesse a file...Thanks and have a great weekend!
Excellent Dave. Maybe in a few weeks’ time you could demonstrate the difference between the two features that you mentioned by text right at the end of the video. Today’s video is one of your very best. Incredibly useful.
Excellent Dave, offering very clear, comprehensive and useful descriptions and applications of Edit Blend If. I really like your table at the end describing the benefits of Edit Blend If and Blend If Masks. They are now among my very top favorite tools in TK9.
Hi Dave. I'm just getting into colour grading, and am aware that blend if has a big role to play in that, so, following on from your excellent blend if videos, would you consider a deep dive into colour grading using TK9? Thanks, John
It seems that there is a lot of benefice to use Blend if instead of luminosity mask. Example: smaller file size, non destructive adjustment, we can copy/paste the ajustement with Blend if to another image, etc. The cons are that we cannot make specific adjustment to it with brush, level or curve. If we do not have to make specific adjustment to our selection (Blend if), is there a difference in the quality result of both approch (luminosity mask and Blend if)? If not, it seems obvious to choose luminosity mask instead of Blend if... Why, by default your are using luminosity mask instead of Blend if? Many thanks for all of your video, I'm a big fan of TK9. I learn a lot from your video. And sorry for my bad english!
What a wonderful tutorial, Dave! Thank you so much. Queries: When you use a custom blend if preset and after your edits you come back to that layer, how do you know what preset you used if you don't remember? And an "obscure" question: Is there a way to apply blend if to "This layer" instead of the "underlying" layer? I can't think of a case for it at the moment but I know that the blend if tool in PS has that capability. Thank you!
The TK9 Blend If functions only work on underlying layers, no option for using "this layer". Applying Blend If to 'this layer" is probably more use in compositing than the sort of photo processing that TK9 gets used for. Might just have a use in turning white or black on "this layer" effectively transparent, a way to create a gradient map with a "transparent" section which is not possible normally - use white or black and then turn off highlights/shadows using Blend If on "this layer", or overlay a text image with white/black background. For this sort of use standard feature is probably good enough.
So basically any adjustment you make using the Edit Blend if layer panel will always apply to the underlying layer and not the current layer since the handle movements are only shown on the underlying layer when opening up Photoshop's layer styles panel ? Excellent video, thank you very much!
Mark that is not quite right. The Blend If adjustments apply to the current layer but the tones or colours that are used to make the selection are based on the underlying layers. The this layer and underlying layers terms in Photoshops standard Blend If panel control where the tones come from. In practice most photo processing use of Blend If only uses underlying layer values, so Tony has only coded this in to the TK9 panel.
The amount of effort you put into this is simply amazing. I have a far better understanding of the Blend-If option and the panel now that I have watched your last two deep dives. I may have to watch it a couple of more times for it to sink in. Our TK9 community is so lucky to have you as an ambassador for the tool. I am looking forward to more Deep Dive sessions.
Thank you very much for the Super Thanks!
Happiness is TK Friday! This is a very helpful tutorial about Blend If. I learned so much today. Thanks Dave !!!
Truly exceptional lesson, Dave. I've used Tony's panels for 10+ years and you keep teaching me new ways to use them. Very useful info.
I do enjoy the TK Friday videos a lot and like most weeks, last weeks was easy to follow. However, I felt that some of this weeks video was too rushed and could have benefitted from slowing down a bit and explaining more of what you were doing. An extra 5 or 6 minutes could have made the operations you were doing easier to understand and I've watched the video 4 times now so maybe experimentation and practice is needed on my part along with another couple of viewings before it all clicks. As always, very informative and helpful. Thanks!
Great information, thank you Dave, you got me started on blend of, will practice it and get back to you if I have any doubts.... Thanks a lot 😊
Dave...another very helpful video. Much more confident with Blend-If now.
I'm going to have to watch this one and part one over and over. Thanks for the explanation.
I think the center panel is too cluttered. I like how the old legacy blend if works. Tony does a good job of reconfiguring and simplifying the panel. Hopefully he will look at this one again. He simplified the mask calculator. I am sure he can do it here as well.
Thank you Dave. Another comprehensive and incredibly helpful TK9 video!
Dave, a very useful video. May I add a couple of points that some may find useful
- the overlay mask view combines Blend If settings and layer mask, so if you enable this when brushing out an effect such as the sky highlights in your video then you can see where the brushing is needed
- if you have combined target/exclude and luminosity Blend If settings on same layer then ctrl/command-click on the red disable mask cross in Cx/Combo will turn them both on and off together, saves having to turn both target/exclude and grey on and off together
- one way to try and get your head around target/exclude that helped me during the beta testing was to get a colour wheel image and then put a black solid fill layer on top. You can then play with the target/exclude settings including the slider to see which colour gets impacted. I found getting the concept clear made it easier to experiment on actual images
Thanks again Dave for another "mind expanding" tutorial...This two part segment on "Blend If" is some really great information that allows one to fine-tune and finesse a file...Thanks and have a great weekend!
Very informative video. Using blend if has huge benefits & simpler worflow. Thank you for sharing.
Great TK Friday video Dave! Learn something new every Friday!
Excellent Dave. Maybe in a few weeks’ time you could demonstrate the difference between the two features that you mentioned by text right at the end of the video. Today’s video is one of your very best. Incredibly useful.
Excellent tutorial. Appreciate the great effort you put into this 👍
Excellent Dave, offering very clear, comprehensive and useful descriptions and applications of Edit Blend If. I really like your table at the end describing the benefits of Edit Blend If and Blend If Masks. They are now among my very top favorite tools in TK9.
Thanks Dave!
Thanks for the Super Thanks.
Thanks Tony - very informative.
Well done Dave. I'm going to watch this one a few times and practice quite a bit before I get totally comfortable with blend if. Thank you.
I love these TK Fridays. How else to learn the details of the use of these panels!👍
Thanks Bruce for the Super Thanks!
Always good info, Thanks.
Masterclass.
Very helpful. Thanks.
Hi Dave. I'm just getting into colour grading, and am aware that blend if has a big role to play in that, so, following on from your excellent blend if videos, would you consider a deep dive into colour grading using TK9? Thanks, John
Thanks!
Thanks for the Super Thanks Steve.
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Thank you for the Super Thanks.
It seems that there is a lot of benefice to use Blend if instead of luminosity mask. Example: smaller file size, non destructive adjustment, we can copy/paste the ajustement with Blend if to another image, etc. The cons are that we cannot make specific adjustment to it with brush, level or curve. If we do not have to make specific adjustment to our selection (Blend if), is there a difference in the quality result of both approch (luminosity mask and Blend if)? If not, it seems obvious to choose luminosity mask instead of Blend if... Why, by default your are using luminosity mask instead of Blend if? Many thanks for all of your video, I'm a big fan of TK9. I learn a lot from your video. And sorry for my bad english!
What a wonderful tutorial, Dave! Thank you so much. Queries: When you use a custom blend if preset and after your edits you come back to that layer, how do you know what preset you used if you don't remember? And an "obscure" question: Is there a way to apply blend if to "This layer" instead of the "underlying" layer? I can't think of a case for it at the moment but I know that the blend if tool in PS has that capability. Thank you!
The TK9 Blend If functions only work on underlying layers, no option for using "this layer". Applying Blend If to 'this layer" is probably more use in compositing than the sort of photo processing that TK9 gets used for. Might just have a use in turning white or black on "this layer" effectively transparent, a way to create a gradient map with a "transparent" section which is not possible normally - use white or black and then turn off highlights/shadows using Blend If on "this layer", or overlay a text image with white/black background. For this sort of use standard feature is probably good enough.
@@datstheone1 Thank you for your comments, David.
So basically any adjustment you make using the Edit Blend if layer panel will always apply to the underlying layer and not the current layer since the handle movements are only shown on the underlying layer when opening up Photoshop's layer styles panel ? Excellent video, thank you very much!
Mark that is not quite right. The Blend If adjustments apply to the current layer but the tones or colours that are used to make the selection are based on the underlying layers. The this layer and underlying layers terms in Photoshops standard Blend If panel control where the tones come from. In practice most photo processing use of Blend If only uses underlying layer values, so Tony has only coded this in to the TK9 panel.
Huge thanks for this, deep dives are great.🙏
Thanks