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Exploring blending modes

Exploring blending modes - Photoshop Tutorial

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Exploring blending modes

- [Voiceover] In this chapter, we're going to explore some of the possibilities that layer blending modes can provide for creating composite images. We'll start with a quick review on a few important concepts that are key to understanding how to take advantage of the compositing power that blend modes have to offer. In this file, I have a background image, and on top of that I have a layer that has three shapes, and those shapes are filled with black, middle gray, or 50% gray to be precise, and white. The reason I have these shapes here is because those three colors serve as neutral colors for certain blending modes, and a neutral color means that the blend mode doesn't see it. It acts as if that color isn't there at all, and it will totally disappear when you use a certain blend mode. Let's open up the blending mode menu at the top of the layers panel, and the first thing to notice is that the blending modes are separated into distinct groupings, based on the type of effect that they…

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