The A-list blend modes: Multiply and screen

- [Instructor] In this movie,…I'll introduce you to the blend modes.…Now, most folks get opacity pretty quickly.…It's pretty darn easy, after all.…They tend to have a harder time with blend modes.…But blend modes are just another method…for reducing the translucency of the selected object,…and thereby mixing it with the colors of the objects below.…But instead of using very simple math,…the way that opacity does,…they use slightly more complicated formulas.…Now, it's not the least bit important that you understand…what those formulas are, just important you understand…the basics of how blend modes work.…

And so I'm going to start off by clicking on…this woman's head here, in order to select that mast image.…And I'm going to hide the selection edges,…just cause they're ultimately going to get in our way,…by pressing CTRL + H, or Command + H on the Mac.…Now there's a couple of different ways…to get to blend modes.…One is, you've got this pop-up menu,…here in the Transparency Panel,…even when it's collapsed, as we're seeing here.…