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The Multiply and Burn modes

The Multiply and Burn modes - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Multiply and Burn modes

In this exercise we will take a look at the three remaining darken modes, Multiply, Color Burn and Linear Burn. These are the ones that you'll be using on a regular basis, in particular Multiply, which is one of the big majorly used for blend modes inside Photoshop. I have restored the saved version of Darken demo.psd, found inside the 04_darken folder and this time around we are going to merge the model with the Wall layer in the background. So I am going to turnoff both the travertino and the water layers. And you can see, we've got the Model layer selected, if I turn her off for a moment, there is the Wall layer that we will blending her against. I will go ahead and turn that layer back on and change the Blend Mode to Darken, just so you can get a sense of what that looks like. Now notice in this case, because she is a warm image set against a warm background, in other words, the pixel that's darkest ends up reconciling about the same way in each of the three color channels. So we…

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