Give your Photoshop software users a share of the experience of using 27 layer blending modes.
Let's start with the most basic-pixel. You think of him as a colorful little color block. These small color blocks have a specific tag value, such as RGB values, CMYK values. Of course, the transparent color block is also a pixel, but the value is 0. Our computers recognize colors by recognizing these values.
Ok, let's look at three more concepts:
Base color, blend color, result color
(The following schematic diagram, if not specifically illustrated, comes from our great Ah tease Photoshop)
Well, if you create a new canvas with a white background, then this white is the base color. Again, for example, if you are painting on Kraft paper, then the yellow color is your base colors.
The blend color is our chosen foreground color, where I choose red.
The result color, in normal mode, is supposed to be red, but since I've adjusted a certain amount of brush transparency, the bottom part of the white is showing up and getting this pink-like result color.
(Bah pooh, so simple, also say so much, you really?? Captivity?
This way is also the basis of our painter's painting, but in our digital age, the so-called electronic canvas, can yo more choices?
For example, we only mix the brightness of the color, and the saturation and hue are not changed;
For example, we can mix the color of the dark part or only the color of the light part.
This goods a total of six groups of 27 kinds of mixed mode, drop slag God, the sky inside is all slag ~
OK, back to the question, forgive me for running away
PS in the layer blending mode of soft light, superposition, strong light and other principles are?
Normal: Edit or draw each pixel to make it the result color;
Dissolve: Edit or draw each pixel to make it a result color, but randomly replace the base and blend colors based on the opacity of the pixel position.
Darken: View color information for each color, select the base color and the darker colors in the blend color as the result color, replace the pixels that are brighter than the blend color, and remain the same as the pixels darker than the blend color
Multiply the bottom: View the color information for each color, and compound the base and blend colors (any color is the same as the white compound, and black when it is compounded), so the resulting color is always darker. Because of the complex steps, the effect of the overlay is more natural and softer than the dimming mode, so this is also a common pattern.
Color depth: To view the color information of each color, by increasing the contrast to make the base color darkened to contrast the mixed color, of course, with the white after mixing does not produce any changes, because the effect is more blunt, say, I do not seem to have used.
Linear depth: Look at the color information for each color, and make the base color darker by decreasing the brightness to contrast the blend color, which does not change with the white, and is somewhat similar to the color-deepening mode.
Dark, this is the simplest, look at the base and blend color information, select the darker color as the blend color, so no new colors are produced
Lighten: View the color information for each color, select the base color and the lighter colors in the blend color as the result color, replace the pixels darker than the blend color, and remain the same as the pixels that are brighter than the blend color
Filter: View the color information for each color and compound the base color with the blend color (any color that is compound with black and white to white) so the result color is always brighter. This is simply too common.
Color Dodge: Look at the color information of each color, by increasing the contrast to make the base color brighter to contrast the mixed color, of course, and black after mixing does not produce any changes, because the effect is more blunt.
Linear Dodge: Look at the color information for each color, and darken the base color by increasing the brightness to contrast the blend color, which does not change with black, and is somewhat similar to the color Dodge pattern.
Light, this is the simplest, look at the base and blend color information, select the lighter color as the blend color, so no new colors are produced
Overlay: Composite or filtered color, depending on the base color, pattern or color added on the existing basis, while preserving the color contrast between the primary colors, do not replace the primaries, but the base color blends with the blend color to reflect the brightness and darkness of the colors
Soft light: Make the color variable or darken, depending on the blend color
Strong light: Composite or filtered color, depending on the blend color
Brightness: To brighten or darken an image by increasing or decreasing the contrast, depending on the blend color
Linear light: The Matthew effect combination of linear-deepening and linear-dodge, brighter and darker
Light: Light is "lighten" and "darken" The Matthew effect combination, brighter and darker
Solid blending: View the color information of each channel, according to the blend color replacement color, how to mix the color is brighter than 50% Gray, then replace the blend color is white, on the contrary, it is black, in fact, the product is to convert grayscale images into Black-and-white images.
Difference: View the color information for each color, subtract the blend from the base color, or subtract the base color from the blend color to see who has a greater number of colors, invert the base value with white, and do not change with the black blend.
Exclude: The effect is similar to the difference, but the effect of lower contrast
Subtract: View the color information for each channel and subtract the blend color from the base color. Cut to zero if a negative number is present. The color is mixed with the base colors to get black; White is mixed with the base color to obtain the black;
Divide: View the color information for each channel and split the blend color with the base color. The base value is greater than or equal to the blend color value, and the color mixed out is white. The base value is less than the blend color, and the resulting color is darker than the base color. Therefore the result color contrast is very strong. The white is mixed with the base color to get the base color, and the black and the base color are white.
Hue: The result color retains the hue of the blend color, and the saturation and lightness values retain the value of the degree.
The saturation mode creates the result color with the saturation of the blend color and the hue and lightness of the base colour, which creates the result color with the hue of the blend color, saturation, and the lightness of the base color.
The lightness blending mode creates the result color with the lightness of the blend color and the hue and saturation of the base color. She is just the opposite of the color pattern, so the blend color picture can only affect the intensity of the picture, and cannot affect the color of the base colors, except black, white, and gray. Black is mixed with the base color, white is mixed with the base color, and gray is mixed with the base color to get a different base color.
Okay, the above information is small to give you photoshop this software users of the detailed 27 layers of mixed mode of use experience to share all the content, you see the users here, I hope that the experience of small series above can bring useful help.
