- 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
Photoshop Blend Modes
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%)