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Changing the blending

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Changing the blending

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- [Instructor] Now at the moment, as you can see we've got some competition between the band logos here and the penguin image itself, or the penguin artwork itself. Now color, isn't an option really for the logos that we've got because we already know they need replacing because they're small anyway, and also their images. Although we could apply a color overlay to those in Photoshop but let's just pretend we don't have that option. So what we can do is blend the penguin down more with the background by using a blending mode and opacity. Select the penguin and what we'll do is we'll go to one of the places you can see opacity here in the control strip at the top. Or over here on the right hand side and there's even a panel for it. I'll use the control strip here and click on that. And I have an opacity field here, which I can change. And we may well do in a moment, but what we're actually after doing is changing the…

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