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Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens

Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens - Photoshop Tutorial

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Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens

In this exercise, I am going to try to give you a better sense of what's going on with blend modes under the hood. Because now that we've seen a few practical applications of the darkening and lightening modes, I want you to feel comfortable sort of perusing the blend modes in general. Now, I am going to show you every single one of them before we're done here. But as you apply blend modes to your own work here inside of Photoshop I want you to be able to do so with a fair amount of authority. So, I've gone ahead and saved my changes as Opposite effects.psd found inside the 28_blending folder. Let's go ahead and switch my layer Comp. I am going to bring up the layer Comps panel and I am going to click in front of Darken in order to reinstate that version of the composition that's created using the Linear Burn mode. I'll close the layer Comps panel for a moment and I want you to see that four of the modes are named exactly after their equations and they are the most basic equations…

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