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Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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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Everything you need to know about blending1m 45s
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Photoshop CS5's blend modes7m 21s
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Cycling between blend modes6m 15s
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Darken and Lighten and their derivatives6m 3s
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The blend mode shortcuts8m 6s
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The Multiply and Burn modes4m 28s
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The Screen and Dodge modes6m
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How opposite blend modes work8m 24s
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Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens5m 23s
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Cleaning up a client's bad art5m 3s
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Dropping out a white background5m 56s
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Blending inside blend modes8m 3s
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Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light6m 26s
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Vivid, Linear, and Pin Light (and Hard Mix)6m 35s
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Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide7m 34s
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Great uses for the Difference mode6m 18s
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Promising uses for the Divide mode9m 6s
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Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity7m
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Blending an inverted layer3m 32s
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The "Fill Opacity Eight"7m 25s
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Making bad blend modes good5m 16s
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Making a knockout layer6m 53s
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Blending in the CMYK mode8m 3s
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Overprinting black text8m 29s
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Using the Luminance slider5m 24s
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Parametric luminance masking6m 20s
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Adjusting the behavior of luminance effects10m 8s
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