From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer

Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer

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- [Teacher] In this movie, I'll introduce you to a couple of advanced blending functions know as this layer and underlying layer. Now the purpose of the first option is to drop out luminance levels in the active layer. And the purpose of the second option is to force through luminance levels in the underlying layers plural. Now you oftentimes hear people refer to these as the blend if sliders because of this loosely associated option that appears above them. But this is not the title of these sliders. Which is why I prefer to think of them as the Luminance Exclusion sliders because they allow you to exclude certain luminance levels from the blending equation. And we're going to use these powerful functions to combine this sun along with this lightening to create this final effect which would otherwise not be possible using blending options alone. So the first thing I'm going to do is combine these two layers right here by clicking on the lightening layer and changing the blend mode…

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