In Photoshop you can use the blend modes to change how layers interact with each other, thus producing interesting artwork. Think of each layer as a transparent glass canvas, what is placed on the top ...

In Adobe Photoshop, blend modes, in their simplest form, are devices that control how pixels in two separate layers interact with and affect each other. The base is the bottom layer and the blend is ...

Included within the assortment of tools you can use in Photoshop is the blend feature. If used properly, your image can be notably enhanced in terms of its appearance. Even combining various simple ...

General Blending Blending an entire layer can be accessed via the Layers palette and enables the user to combine pixel values of two or more layers by simply reducing the upper layer opacity or by ...

Learn how to create a horrific dungeon-like wall with blood-scrawled text using Photoshop. This step-by-step tutorial walks ...

If you’re working on an image in Photoshop that’s cut into numerous sections, sometimes you find yourself needing to carefully align the different layers just by eye. Set one layer to the “difference” ...

blend modes (layer composition modes) such as 'dodge' and 'soft light'. Product designer Dan Holick explains what this layer composition mode is doing. A layered blending mode is one that creates a ...

Last column, I discussed the “Lighten” and “Darken” blending modes in Photoshop, which you can use as an effect on an underlying layer. However, there are more powerful methods of combining blending ...

Chrome’s experimental Canary channel and Safari’s WebKit nightly builds both now support all of the Photoshop-inspired blend modes for CSS Shaders, part of Adobe’s effort to bring Photoshop-style ...