Month: October 2015

• Open Wall
• Duplicate wall as new “displacement” document
• Gaussian blur the displacement (try 2 pixels)
• Distort and displace the flag (7×7 with repeat edge)
• Reduce opacity to 60%
• Make a copy of the wall
• Select the black color in the openings in the wall and turn it into a mask

Displacement files

Groups of blend modes:

• Normal:
  • Normal
  • Dissolve: treats transparency as a pixel pattern and applies a diffusion dither pattern
• Darken:
  • Darken: If the pixels of the selected layer are darker than the ones on the layers below, they are kept in the image.
  • Multiply (commonly used): Works by multiplying the luminance levels of the current layer’s pixels with the pixels in the layers below.
  • Color Burn: Darker than Multiply, with more highly saturated mid-tones and reduced highlights.
  • Linear Burn: Darker than Multiply, but less saturated than Color Burn.
  • Darker Color: Darkens on the composite channel, instead of separate RGB color channels.
• Lighten:
  • Lighten: If the pixels of the selected layer are lighter than the ones on the layers below, they are kept in the image
  • Screen (commonly used): Brighter than “lighten” and removes more of the dark pixels, and results in smoother transitions.
  • Color Dodge: Results in intense high-contrast colors.
  • Linear Dodge (Add): Brighter than the Color Dodge blend mode, but less saturated and intense.
  • Lighter Color: Similar to the Lighten blend mode, but lightens on the composite channel, instead of separate color channels.
• Contrast:
  • Overlay (commonly used): Uses a combination of the Screen blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Multiply blend mode on the darker pixels.
  • Soft Light (commonly used): Uses a combination of half-strength application of Screen blend mode on the lighter pixels, and a half-strength application Multiply blend mode on the darker pixels
  • Hard Light: Uses a combination of the Linear Dodge blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Linear Burn blend mode on the darker pixels.
  • Vivid Light: Uses a combination of the Color Dodge Mode on the lighter pixels, and the Color Burn blend mode on the darker pixels.
  • Linear Light: Uses a combination of the Linear Dodge blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Linear Burn blend mode on the darker pixels
  • Pin Light: Uses a combination of the Lighten blend mode on the lighter pixels, and the Darken blend mode on the darker pixels
  • Hard Mix: Uses the Linear Light blend mode set to a threshold, so for each RGB color channel, pixels in each channel are converted to either all black or all white.
• Inversion:
  • Difference: With this blend mode, similar colors cancel each other, and the resulting color is black.
  • Exclusion: Similar colors cancel each other, the resulting color is gray instead of black.
• Cancellation:
  • Substract: Similar colors cancel each other, and the resulting color is black
  • Divide: Similar colors turn white, with the exception of blacks.
• Component
  • Hue: You get the hue of the top level layer.
  • Saturation: Keeps the saturation of the top level layer.
  • Color: Same as hue but with the luminance of the lower layers.
  • Luminosity: Keeps the luminance of the active layer, and blends it with hue and saturation (the color) of the composite view of the layers below.

In Bold: modes that look different if fill or opacity is selected (other modes will look the same for e.g. opacity=50% or fill=50%)

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