Photoshop Blending Modes Explained
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2017
- Diving deep into Blending Modes in Photoshop with detailed explanations and applications to your images. What are blending modes? Interestingly, there are 27 blending modes in Photoshop and the only blend modes that you'll ever need, especially for photography, are just 4.
We'll attempt to develop a deeper understanding of blending modes in Photoshop. When it comes to layers, blend modes are an indispensable part of the workflow with a plethora of real-world applications. Whether you are retouching, compositing, putting up the logo, creating a photo manipulation art or even simply editing your family photos, blend modes are very essential not only to enhance your results but make your workflow more efficient.
In this tutorial, first off, we will learn what are the four most important blend modes and how they work. Then, we'll have some amazing and awesome examples to show you how to actually apply them to your images. By the way, the 4 most important ones are multiply, screen, soft light and overlay blend modes. Next up, we will mention and touch up on a couple more little important but essential blend modes: linear light, color, and hue.
And at the end, I have something really cool for you guys. We'll use multiple blend modes to get advanced effects in Photoshop like realistically putting a lipstick and adding paper texture to your images. If you want to master layers, mastering blend modes is a must.
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, do leave them down in the comments below and I'll surely get back to you. Thanks a lot for watching.
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Unmesh: "What is the opposite of multiply?"
Me: "Divide!"
Unmesh: Screen
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A couple of years ago, I wanted to *understand* blending modes, and around the same time, one of the clubs I'm in asked me to do a Member's Night presentation. So I decided to learn about blending modes--but all the resources I could find said the same things: You only need to know about 4 or 5, and a general description of what you see when you apply them. It took me a while and dozens of sources, but I finally got to the root of HOW and WHY blending modes work, along with the math behind each and every mode (every blending mode is simply a mathematical operation applied to the base--all the layers on the "bottom" as you see them using information found in the blend layer). But the way WE see the math, the way Photoshop sees the math, and the way Photoshop TELLS us it sees the math are based on completely different principles.
Bottom line is that after I gained an understanding of how they work, how they relate to each other (most of the blend modes are paired with another in that they are performing reciprocal mathematical operations--which is why Screen is the opposite of Multiply--and why you can actually use Multiply to Screen and vice versa), I found that I use almost ALL of the blend modes.
There IS one question I have remaining about blend modes, though, and NOBODY I have contacted seems to have or be able to find the answer. I was hoping that it would be in this video . . . but I knew that it wouldn't be as soon as you said the dreaded "There are only four blend modes you'll ever need" bit. Here's the question, though, should you ever have occasion to review the comments on a video that's a year and a half old:
Usually, we are told that the Opacity and Fill sliders differ in that Opacity affects the totality of the active layer, while Fill affects the *content* of a layer, but does *not* affect any Styles applied to that layer. This is true for most blend modes, but there are 8 (in my presentation, I called them the "Crazy 8") which this is NOT true for. With the Crazy 8, the Opacity and Fill sliders affect the *content* of the layer differently, and *NOBODY* seems to know why. And since essentially all that Opacity does is create a blend which moves the numerical color values in the active layer closer and closer to the numerical values of the corresponding pixels in the base layer, thus creating the illusion of transparency, whatever difference in function there is must lie in the Fill function, because it must be doing something more complex.
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