Photoshop Getting Started Tutorial (iv): Blending mode

Learning experience: Mixed mode is often overlooked in Photoshop, the biggest reason is that it is located in a relatively hidden position in the upper left corner of the layer panel. Using blending mode, determines how the image's middle-level pixels are blended with the underlying pixels in the image, making the overlay of the layer even more cool. Multiple blending modes combine to get unexpected results. In the absence of inspiration, try blending mode.

Blending mode options:

Dimming mode (subtractive)

Normal

Dissolved

Darken

Multiply

Color burn

Linear burn

Dark

Lighten mode (add color)

Lighten

Color Filter

Color Dodge

Linear Dodge (ADD)

Light

Saturation mode

Superposition

Soft Light

Strong light

Light

Linear light

Point Light

Solid Color Blending

Differential set mode

Difference value

Exclude

Minus

Divided

Color mode

Hue

Saturation level

Color

Lightness

Mixed Mode Details:

"normal" mode: no effect

Dissolve mode: Adjust opacity to create a point-spray image effect, with lower opacity and more scattered pixels.

Darken mode: handles areas darker than the current image. Pixels brighter than the blend color are replaced, and pixels darker than the blend color remain unchanged. Mixing with white does not produce a change.

Multiply mode: any area except white darkens the base color. Note that any color mixed with black produces black. Any color with white compound remains unchanged. Mixed with white does not produce a change

color Burn mode: strengthens the dark area. The principle is to darken the base color to reflect the blend color by increasing the contrast. Mixing with white does not produce a change.

linear burn mode: The linear burn pattern works similarly to the multiply mode, but produces a more contrasting effect, which is equivalent to the combination of multiply and color burn patterns. The principle is to darken the base color to reflect the blend color by decreasing the brightness. Mixing with White also does not produce a change.

Dark Mode: compares the sum of all channel values of the blend and base colors and displays a smaller color. Compared to the image effect in darken mode, the difference between the two is that the "dark" blend mode does not produce a third color, and the color in the image does not change to clearly identify where the base color is from the resulting color and where the color of the blend color is.

Lighten mode: The lighten mode has the opposite effect as the dimming mode. Select a lighter color in the base or blend color as the result color. pixels with a base color darker than the blend color retain the base color, and pixels brighter than the blend color are displayed as mixed colors. The color remains the same when filtered with black.

Filter Mode: blends the complementary color of the blend color with the base color and the resulting color is always lighter. The characteristic is that the image can produce bleaching effect, the color filter mode is opposite to the effect of the multiply mode. The color remains the same when filtered in black, and white is used to filter it.

color Dodge Mode: lightens the base colors to reflect the blend color by decreasing the contrast. The feature is the ability to highlight the underlying image, while making the color more saturated, with limited changes to the dark area, thus maintaining a good contrast ratio. Mixed with black is not changed.

linear Dodge Mode: brightens the base color to reflect the blend color by increasing the brightness. It is similar to the color filter mode, but produces a more intense contrast effect. Mixed with black is not changed.

Light mode: A third color is not generated because it selects the maximum channel value from the base and blend colors to create the result color. As with the "dark" mode and "darken" mode, the "light" mode is basically the same as the "lighten" mode principle, except that it is different from the third color.

Overlay mode: preserves the highlights and shadows of the underlying image when you add color to the underlying image. (Composite or filter color, depending on the base color.) Patterns or colors are superimposed on existing pixels while preserving the shading of the base color. The base color is not replaced, but the primary color is mixed with the blend hue to reflect the brightness or darkness of the primaries.

Soft Light mode: lightens or darkens the color, resulting in a finer effect than the overlay mode or strong light mode. If the blend color (light source) is brighter than 50% gray, the image is lightened, as if it were dimmed. If the blend color (light source) is darker than 50% gray, the image darkens, as if it were deepened. Painting with pure black or pure white produces noticeably darker or lighter areas, but does not produce pure black or pure white.

"Strong Light" mode: strong light mode is characterized by increasing the contrast of the image, which is equivalent to the combination of multiply and filter color. This effect is similar to a dazzling spotlight on an image. This is useful for adding highlights to an image and adding a dark tone to an image. Pure black or pure white paint produces pure black or pure white.

"Light" mode: the characteristic is that after mixing the color is more saturated, can make the image to produce a kind of crisp feeling, it is equivalent to the combination of color dodge and color deepening. Burn or dodge colors by increasing or decreasing the contrast.

Linear Light Mode: features a higher contrast effect on the image, which makes more areas black and white, which is equivalent to a combination of linear dodge and linear burn. Burn or dodge colors by decreasing or increasing the brightness.

"Point Light" mode: the feature is the color can be replaced according to the blend color, mainly used to make special effects, it is equivalent to lighten and darken mode combination. If the blend color (light source) is brighter than 50% gray, the pixels darker than the blend color are replaced, without changing the pixels brighter than the blend color. If the blend color is darker than 50% gray, the pixels brighter than the blend color are replaced without changing the pixels darker than the blend color.

"Solid Color Blending" mode: the feature is to increase the saturation of the color, so that the image produces tonal separation effect.

difference mode: white areas in mixed colors cause the image to be reversed, and the black area gets closer to the underlying image. The principle is to subtract the blend color from the base color, or subtract the base color from the blend color, depending on which color has a greater luminance value. Blending with white reverses the base color value, and blending with black does not change.

Exclude mode: The exclusion mode produces a softer effect than the difference mode. Creates an effect that is similar to the difference mode but with a lower contrast. Blending with white reverses the base color value. Mixed with black is not changed.

Subtract mode: The value of the base color minus the blend color, similar to the difference mode, if the blend color is the same as the base color, the result color is black. In the difference mode, if the blend color is white, the resulting color is black, as the blend color is black, and the resulting color is the same as the base colors.

"divide" mode: the base color is divided into mixed color, with strong contrast. After reading the example diagram we directly with a few special color example, in the partition mode if the blend color and the base color is the same as the result color is white, such as the mixed color is white, the result color is the same, such as the mixed color is black, the result color is white.

Hue mode: creates a result color with the luminance and saturation of the base color and the hue of the blend color. This mode applies the color of the blend color layer to the base layer image and maintains the brightness and saturation of the base layer image.

saturation mode: The saturation mode is characterized by making certain areas of the image black and white, which applies the saturation of the current image to the underlying image and preserves the brightness and hue of the underlying image.

Color mode: The feature is that the hue and saturation of the current image can be applied to the underlying image, and the brightness of the underlying image is maintained. You can preserve the grayscale in the image and are useful for coloring monochrome images and for color images.

"lightness" mode: the feature is that the brightness of the current image can be applied to the underlying image, and the hue and saturation of the underlying image is maintained. This mode creates the opposite effect of the color mode.

Mixed Mode effects Demo Video: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XOTAwMjQxOTg0.html

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