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Blending layers like a pro

Blending layers like a pro - Photoshop Tutorial

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Blending layers like a pro

- The topic of this chapter is blend modes. Now, in case you haven't heard of them before, a blend mode uses some basic math, addition, multiplication, subtraction, really basic stuff, to blend the active layer with the ones below. Okay, I'm already making it sound a bit difficult, but it's not. You know opacity, right. If you set a layer to, say, 75% opacity, that means you're seeing 75% of the active layer and 100 minus 75, or 25% of the layers behind it. Blend modes just use different formulas. Let's say you apply the multiply mode. That tells Photoshop to take the luminous levels, from the active layer, and multiply them on to the layers below. The result is that the layers darken each other, as if they were transparencies laid one on top of another on a light table. Or you might create a magic marker effect, like we're seeing here. Once you see it in action, you'll use multiply all the time. Seriously, you and multiply are going to be best friends in just a few movies, but don't…

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