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Getting to know the blend modes

Getting to know the blend modes - Photoshop Tutorial

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Getting to know the blend modes

- [Narrator] In this video, we're going to take a look at how to use blend modes to control how layers interact with one another. But keep in mind blend modes aren't limited to layers, they can be used with many of the painting tools when adding layer effects like drop shadows, and even with the apply image and calculation commands. Now in this document, I have two layers, the background layer, which is an image of the sky with a cloud taken through a window, and I'm going to call this the base color. Now it's a single layer in this document, but it could be made of several layers. And then we have the leaf layer, which is the blending layer, it's got the blending colors and tones in it, and the combination of the two are going to give us the resulting color or basically what we see on screen. So the blend modes are grouped together in the list, separated by these thin lines here. And we're going to start by taking a look…

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