From the course: Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures
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Textures and blending modes
From the course: Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures
Textures and blending modes
- [Instructor] Effective use of textures means understanding and working with the different Photoshop blending modes. A blending mode is simply a formula where the pixel in a layer above layer or layers combines with the pixel below it and the formula guides how it's done. If you look at a Photoshop layer stack from the top with the top layer in normal and opacity at 100%, all you see is the top layer. Changing either the opacity or the blending mode changes that, so let's have a look at some of this in practice. First of all, I'm gonna take this Chardonnay which is one of the Florabella textures and I'm going to place it over a portion of this image of mine of the California Hills in the evening. I'm going to make the image a little bigger but I'm not gonna cover the entire bottom line image because I want you to see what the changes are as opposed to the way the image originally is. Once I put a second layer into my layer stack, the dropdown menu of blending modes becomes visible…
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