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Blend Mode basics - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
Blend Mode basics
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to take a look at how blend modes control the layer interaction between one another. But keep in mind, blend modes aren't limited to layers. They can be used with many of the painting tools and when adding layer effects like drop shadows. So in this document, I have two layers. The image of the rock, which is the background, which I'm going to call the base layer, although, it could be made of several different layers. And then we have the watch, which is photographed on a white background, which is the blend layer. So I'll be blending or applying the blend mode to the watch and it will blend with the base layer or all of the layers underneath it. Plus, we have these three swatches on the watch layer. The white, 50% gray, plus black. So the blend modes are grouped together in the list and they're separated by these thin lines. We'll start by talking about the first group, the…
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