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The Contrast, Inversion, and HSL modes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
The Contrast, Inversion, and HSL modes
In this exercise, we are going to review the commands in the second half of the Blend mode menu. I'm still working away inside Mishipizheu CS5.ai found inside the 22_transparency folder. All I've done is to meatball the beast layer here inside the layers panel. Hide my edges by pressing Ctrl+H or Command+H and then switch between the various blend modes. Right now we are looking at Color Dodge. We are now going to switch up to the first of the contrast modes, Overlay, and Overlay is Soft Light and Hard Light. I'll do variations on a common theme; basically the idea is you are multiplying the darkest details and screening the lightest details by which I mean you're applying the Multiply mode in order to convert the darkest details inside the selected object to shadows, and then you're applying the Screen mode to the lightest details inside the selected object to convert them to highlights or glows. So this is the effect of Overlay right there and theoretically, you should get a kind of…
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The many forms of transparency1m 29s
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Real-world blending modes7m 57s
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Exporting transparency from Illustrator6m 24s
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Opacity and blending modes6m 18s
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The Darken and Lighten modes7m 17s
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The Contrast, Inversion, and HSL modes6m 12s
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Blending modes in action5m 11s
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Creating a knockout group6m 13s
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Confirming the viability of your artwork6m 8s
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Introducing the opacity mask4m 6s
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Making an opacity mask5m 25s
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Drawing inside an opacity mask3m 33s
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Creating a gradient opacity mask5m 29s
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Adding an opacity mask to a single object3m 22s
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