Multiply, Screen, and Overlay Blending Modes in Photoshop
Three Blending Modes in Photoshop that I love using are the Multiply, Screen, and Overlay modes. I decided to take some time to create a mini-quick-tip for these blend modes to show people a real-world example of how these would work in their photos. Check it out now!
The three modes are covered in an over-view sense and show you how each related to some color theory. Here’s the breakdown:
Multiply Mode:
Multiply mode takes the color that you’re painting and multiplies it’s value against the color underneath, therefore greatly increasing saturation, contrast, and more importantly, taking white-values as being transparent. It’s also a great way to demonstrate the additive color process.
Screen Mode:
Screen mode is almost the complete opposite of Multiply, decreasing saturation, and dividing the color underneath, making colors lighter, and using the top color value for hue. Screen mode also works better with a dark or black background. When on black, you can see the subtractive color process in action.
Overlay Mode:
Overlay mode is a great way to enhance shadows and highlights, taking the brightness of the colors and multiplying them by the brightness of the values underneath, they can make for really dramatic enhancements to your photographs, act as a way to paint in shadows, and work as an exposure brush for non-raw images.
Hope you enjoy the quick video and hopefully you’ll leave me some feedback on more blending modes you’d like to discuss, and I can make a full tutorial out of them.
Saturday, August 7th, 2010. Filed under: Design Tutorials Photoshop
