The Fill Opacity Eight

In this movie, I'll introduce you to what I…call the fill opacity 8, which are 8 blend modes…that respond, better to an adjustment to the fill value…than they do to an adjustment to the opacity value.…And I'm here to tell you I have no idea why things work this way.…I just know that they do work this way.…So, just by way of a refresher, the main purpose…of Fill Opacity is to reduce the opacity of a layer…independently of it's Layer Effects.…So here, I am looking at an example from Chapter 16 of the intermediate course.…

And notice that I have some effects, assigned to this Shire Layer.…I'll go ahead and turn them on.…We have an inner shadow, and a drop shadow at work.…Now, if I decide I want to reduce the darkness inside the letters, then…I could press, for example, the 2 key in order to reduce the opacity value.…But that ends up,…reducing the opacity of the layer effects as well.…I don't want that, so I'll press the 0 key.…To reinstate 100% opacity.…Instead what I want to, do is Press Shift+2,…in order to reduce the Fill Opacity to 20%.…