You can also change blend modes sequentially by pressing up and down arrow keys in blending tool in Photoshop. It gives a striking look to this image. For that, let me draw a new shape. I liked this blending in Photoshop effect, but it has over-brightened the image.
So I can drag down the opacity of the background layer to set the image proper. Now you can see the difference. Skip to content. What is Blend Modes?
Step 2 Select the Image for whose background needs change. There are no special blending methods happening here. Lower opacity to show the layer beneath. This is the same as normal except no transparency effects are applied to pixels. The blend happens by dithering pixels on or off.
Makes it look like snow on the picture. Any areas that are darker on the base color will replace the lighter colors on the blend layer. The result is a darker image. With the exception of white on the blend colors, each color is darkened. This is like taking two transparencies, placing them over each other and holding up to the light. White is ignored. Darkens the base color and the blend color, increases contrast. Produces a darker and more saturated result. Blending with white produces no change.
The opposite of Darken. The resulting color that displays is the lightest of the base or blend color. This is the opposite of multiply. This is like taking multiple exposures on a single film frame. Black is ignored. Opposite of Color Burn. The base color influences and contrast is reduced.
Blending with black produces no change. Opposite of Darker color. The lighter of the base or blend pixels display. If the colors on the blend color are darker than the base they are multiplied. If they are lighter they are screened. This produces saturated colors and pleasant contrast.
Similar to overlay but will less contrast because it uses darken and lighten rather than multiply and screen. This is like casting a diffused light from the blend color. This is like shining a harsh spotlight at the image. Works like Hard light but uses color dodge and color burn rather than Multiply and screen.
Produces a higher contrast image than Hard light. The blend color is the light source. Reduces the image to solid red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta, white, or black. These are the primary colors. No gradients will be displayed in the image. This produces a posterized effect. The lightest colors are subtracted from the darker colors. White inverts the base color and black produces no change. This psychedelic blend mode is useful for aligning layers together.
Similar to the difference mode, but with less saturation. Very little luminance is shown for the blend pixels. Uses the color hue of the blend color. The Saturation and the luminosity of the base pixels are used. Uses the color saturation of the blend color.
The hue and the luminosity of the base pixels are used. The color from the blend color is used. The luminosity Image detail from the base pixels are used. All the image detail from the blend pixels is shown with the color from the base color.
Opposite of Color. There are two more blend modes that only appear on brushes and shape tools. These are not available for layers. You will choose these other blend modes from the Control Bar with either the paint tools or the shape tool selected. They are: Behind and Clear. Edits or paints only on the transparent part of a layer. If you have pixels on the layer, they will not be affected. The fist image is a scribble in blue. Select red and make another scribble.
The blue is protected and the red only appears where there is transparency. This is all done on the same layer! This makes the brush work just like the eraser. Why not just use the eraser? When you use this blending mode with the shape tool, it takes on a whole new life.
Who wants to make a selection, press delete and then turn off the selection? The clear mode turns the shape tool into a pixel-eating machine. Make sure that the fill pixels option is chosen in the options bar This is really useful for getting unusual shapes like the battle-axe.
With a circle on a new layer, choose the oval shape tool. Select the clear blending mode from the options bar. As you draw with the shape tool it will now erase pixels in its shape. Grab your free PDF ebook right now. For the multiply mode you do not need to copy the picture itself. Great post Robert, but I have a question. So, can you explain for me this thing? GREAT article! I have to give a talk at the local camera club on this subject, and this article is a major help in preparing for it.
In Difference mode, I see exactly what I would expect to see: since all values on the active layer are precisely equal to all values on the base layer, every channel ends with a value of 0, and the image is solid black. I see the subjects of the shot clearly, and with many colors. It just looks like the contrast has been turned way down. Why am I not seeing a solid grey? Thank you so much for making this information on blending modes so easily accessable.
I love ur post. Amazing depth and detail! Thank you so much for this very well documented article! The background layer being the cobblestone texture layer and the top layer a portrait layer.
This is a really comprehensive guide to the blend modes in Photoshop, just what I was looking for and it helped me a lot. You certainly get better results when you know what each one of them is doing rather than just skipping through them and hoping for the best.
This is a great resource. I used it to prepare one of my video tutorials and gave a link here too. Thanks much! Your email address will not be published.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Standardized Numbers Illustrated Because the luminance values are standardized before the math is applied, and the math is working with numbers ranging between 0 and 1, the resulting calculations may not be what you would expect. Dissolve The Dissolve blend mode on acts on transparent and partially transparent pixels — it treats transparency as a pixel pattern and applies a diffusion dither pattern.
If the pixels in the layer are lighter, they are replaced with the tones on the layers below they show through to the selected layer , so basically the darker tones of all layers are kept. Note that this behavior is on a channel by channel basis, i. If you want to apply the same Darken blend mode behavior on a composite basis, use the Darker Color blend mode instead however this typically results in harsher transitions.
Multiply The best mode for darkening. Great for creating shadows and removing whites and other light colors while keeping the darker colors. As an analogy, think of the selected layer and all of the layers below as individual transparencies, and that they are stacked on top of each other, and then placed on an overhead projector.
Using this analogy, the light passing through the lighter areas will have trouble getting through the darker areas, but the lighter areas will shine through other lighter areas with relative ease. Color Burn Special 8 Darker than Multiply, with more highly saturated mid-tones and reduced highlights. Darker Color Similar to the Darken blend mode, but darkens on the composite channel, instead of separate RGB color channels.
If the pixels in the layer are darker, they are replaced with the pixels on the layers below they show through to the selected layer. If you want to apply the same Lighten blend mode behavior on a composite basis, use the Lighter Color blend mode instead however this typically results in harsher transitions. Screen Similar to the Lighten blend mode, but brighter and removes more of the dark pixels, and results in smoother transitions.
Works somewhat like the Multiply blend mode, in that it multiplies the light pixels instead of the dark pixels like the Multiply blend mode does. As an analogy, imagine the selected layer and each of the underlying layers as being 35mm slides, and each slide being placed in a separate projector one slide for each projector , then all of the projectors are turned on and pointed at the same projector screen…this is the effect of the Screen blend mode.
This is a great mode for making blacks disappear while keeping the whites, and for making glow effects. Color Dodge Special 8 Brighter than the Screen blend mode. Results in an intense, contrasty color-typically results in saturated mid-tones and blown highlights. Lighter Color Similar to the Lighten blend mode, but lightens on the composite channel, instead of separate color channels.
Compares each pixel and gives you the lighter of the two and usually results in harsher transitions. This is achieved by using combinations of the lightening and darkening modes from the Lighten and Darken groups. The Contrast blend modes work by checking if the colors are either darker than medium gray, or lighter than medium gray.
If they are darker than medium gray, then a darkening blend mode is applied. Conversely, if the colors are brighter than medium gray, then a brightening mode is applied. For each of the Contrast blend modes, the math is applied against complementary opposite blend modes. For example, the Overlay blend mode uses a combination of the Multiply and Screen Blend modes, and these modes are complements of each other.
Overlay Uses a combination of the Screen blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Multiply blend mode on the darker pixels. One difference between the Overlay blend mode and the other Contrast blend modes, is that it makes its calculations based on the brightness of the layers below the active layer—all of the other Contrast modes make their calculations based on the brightness of the active layer.
To get results similar to the Overlay mode, but where the blend mode favors the active layer, use the Hard Light blend mode it uses similar logic, but favors the active layer. Another thing to note about the Overlay blend mode, is that it and the Hard Light blend mode are commuted versions of each other.
This means that if you apply the Overlay blend mode to the active layer, you will get the same effect if you apply the Hard Light blend mode to the layer below, and then switch the order of the layers.
Soft Light Uses a combination of the Screen blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Multiply blend mode on the darker pixels a half-strength application of both modes. Similar to the Overlay blend mode, but results in a more organic effect that is softer—results in somewhat transparent highlights and shadows. Hard Light Uses a combination of the Linear Dodge blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Linear Burn blend mode on the darker pixels.
The effect is more intense than the Overlay blend mode, and results in harsher light. Another thing to note about the Hard Light blend mode, is that it and the Overlay blend mode are commuted versions of each other. This means that if you apply the Hard Light blend mode to the active layer, you will get the same effect if you apply the Overlay blend mode to the layer below, and then switch the order of the layers.
Vivid Light Special 8 Uses a combination of the Color Dodge Mode on the lighter pixels, and the Color Burn blend mode on the darker pixels a half-strength application of both modes. Similar to the Hard Mix blend mode in overdrive, and typically results in a more extreme effect. Linear Light Special 8 Uses a combination of the Linear Dodge blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Linear Burn blend mode on the darker pixels a half-strength application of both modes. Similar to the Vivid Light blend mode in overdrive, and typically results in a more extreme effect.
Pin Light Uses a combination of the Lighten blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Darken blend mode on the darker pixels a half-strength application of both modes. This is a wild blend mode that can result in patches or blotches large noise , and it completely removes all mid-tones. The Multiply blend mode darkens images, the Screen blend mode lightens them, and the Overlay blend mode increases contrast. The Color blend mode blends only the color of a layer, and Luminosity blends only the brightness!
As we'll learn, Photoshop blend modes are grouped together based on what they do lighten, darken, increase contrast, and so on and these five are the stars of their groups. If you're new to blend modes, you'll want to continue reading to learn more about what blend modes are, where to find them, and how they're organized. If you'd rather jump to a specific blend mode to learn how it works, use the links below. Blend modes in Photoshop offer different ways for a layer to blend, or interact, with the layer s below it.
Without blend modes, the only way to blend layers is by lowering a layer's opacity , which doesn't produce very interesting results. Blend modes unlock a world of creative possibilities, and they're extremely useful when it comes to editing, retouching and restoring photos.
They're easy to use, and they save us a whole lot of time! As of Photoshop CC, there are 27 blend modes to choose from, but you don't need to know all 27 to start using blend modes in your daily work. And let's face it, names like 'Dissolve", "Color Dodge", "Linear Burn", "Difference", and "Exclusion" are enough to leave anyone scratching their head wondering what the heck these things do.
But here's the secret. For most day-to-day image editing work, there are only five blend modes you need to know. Not 27, just 5! What are they? Multiply , Screen , Overlay , Color , and Luminosity. Learn how and when to use these five blend modes and life with Photoshop becomes a whole lot easier! Before we look at each of these five blend modes in more detail, let's learn where to find blend modes in Photoshop.
Since blend modes are used with layers, you may think they're listed under the Layer menu in the Menu Bar.
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