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Screen and the other lighten modes

Screen and the other lighten modes - Photoshop Tutorial

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

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Screen and the other lighten modes

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- [Man] Now, the next group of blend modes begins with lighten and ends with lighter color and they, as you might predict, are known as the lighten modes and in the case of each of these modes, the active color lightens the one below it and that goes for every single pixel on the active layer except the ones that are black and they become invisible. So, all the other pixels are going to brighten based on how bright they start, meaning that brighter pixels brighten that much more. Now, each one of the lighten modes has an opposite mode paired sequentially in the darken group. So, in other words, lighten is the opposite of darken, screen is the opposite of multiply, color dodge is the opposite of color burn, linear dodge add is the opposite of linear burn, and then lighter color is the opposite of darker color. And let me show you how they work. We've got he sun on one layer and then behind it we have this lightning and so, what I'm going to do is turn the sun layer on and select it and…

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