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Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide

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Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll talk about the second to last group of blend modes starting with Difference and ending in Divide. Now this is a pretty obscure and hodgepodge bunch. At best it's two varieties of blend modes that are grouped together. The first variety includes Difference in Exclusion and it's known as the Inversion modes and these use the active layer to invert the ones below it. When you apply the Difference mode, similar colors become black. When you apply the Exclusion mode, they become grayish. The next two modes, the so-called cancellation modes, include Subtract and Divide, and they subtract or divide the active layer from those below it. Now, the way it's really going to shake out where day-to-day use is concerned, is that every so often you might find the Difference mode to be useful. Every blue moon, you might switch to the Exclusion mode instead, and you're almost never going to apply subtract…

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