Normal mode vs. Dissolve mode

In this chapter we'll be taking a look at the normal modes.…Now the first of the normal modes is Normal, which turns the Blend Mode off, not…really anymore to say about that.…The other modes are Dissolve, which I'll demonstrate inside this exercise.…We also have a couple of other modes behind and clear that are associated…with the Brush Tool and the Fill command and we'll see how those work in future exercises.…I'm working in a file called Circles. psd found inside the 03_normal folder,…and I'm going to start things off by switching the Blend Mode from Normal to Dissolve.…

You're not going to see much of a difference I'll go ahead and zoom on in here,…so that we can see those edges, and you know what, I'll zoom to 200%, so you can…see how things have gotten a little bit ratty along those edges.…And what's happing here is, Photoshop is converting those edges to either…absolutely opaque or absolutely transparent.…So we're losing the anti-aliasing and then anti-alias edge is getting resolved…