Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light

Over the course of this and in the next exercise I am going to introduce you to…all seven of the contrast modes.…In this exercise, I'll start off with the primary three modes which happen to…appear first in the list.…Those are Overlay, Soft Light and Hard Light, all of which are designed to mimic…a combination of Multiply and Screen, working together.…If you get a font warning when you open this image, don't worry about it,…Photoshop will still allow you to see the text as it was originally rendered.…Notice in the background here I have this photograph of this pile of leaves.…

So that will serve as the backdrop for each one of our effects.…Now if I switch over to my next layer comp, you can see for the sake of…demonstrating the Darken and Lighten modes, I have set up two side-by-side…gradients both of which appear on different layers you can see here, one is…called left, one is called right.…We've got a black to white gradient over here on the left-hand side and a black…to white gradient over here in right hand side.…