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Blending Modes - Part 2



image 1 11. Overlay

Bright areas are screened and dark areas are multiplied. Brightness is defined by the brightness of the blend colours. Darker areas will appear darker and lighter areas will appear lighter.


image 2 12. Soft Light

Lighter areas are dodged and darker areas are burned. Opacity is defined by the brightness of each source colour channel. Brighter source colour channels will be more opaque; if the source colour has a brightness value of 75%, the blend opacity will be 75%.


image 3 13. Hard Light

Areas are lightened or darkened according to the brightness of the blend colour. Lighter areas will be screened and darker areas will be multiplied.


image 4 14. Vivid Light

Lighter areas are dodged and darker areas are burned. Contrast is increased according to the distance from the blends brightness and darkness to a 50% gray.


image 5 15. Linear Light

Lighter areas dodged and darker areas are burned. If the brightness of the blend colour is greater or equal to 50, then the source area will be lightened by increasing its brightness. If the brightness of the blend colour is less or equal to 50, then the source area will be darkened by increasing its brightness.


image 6 16. Pin Light

Blend colours are replaced according to the brightness of the colours. Darker source colours with a brightness equal or less than 50 will be replaced by the blend colour if it is darker than the source colours. Lighter source colours with a brightness equal or greater than 50 will be replaced by the blend colour of it is lighter than the source colour.

 


image 7 17. Hard Mix

Source colours are posterized according to the difference of the blend colours brightness and a 50% gray.


image 8 18. Difference

Blend colours are subtracted from the base colours to invert the colours. The colours are inverted according to the difference between the colours.


image 9 19. Exclusion

Blend colours are subtracted from the base colours to invert the colours. The colours are inverted according to the difference between the colours. The amount of gray is equal to the opacity of the blend colours.


image 10 20. Hue

Saturation and brightness of the source colour is equal to the difference of the source colour and the hue of the blend colour.


image 11 21. Saturation

The saturation of the source colours is equal to the saturation of the blend colours.

 


image 12 22. Color

The saturation of the source colours is equal to the saturation of the blend colours. The hue of the source colours is equal to the hue of the blend colours. The brightness of the source colours is the opposite of the blend colours.


image 13 23. Luminosity

The brightness of the source colours are equal to the brightness of the blend colours.



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