Blending Modes
Software : Photoshop CS
Level : Beginner

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

Blending modes can be used sometimes to get satisfactory results for black and white output. Hue is a mode taking brightness and saturation from the base color and add the color from the blend layer. You will get the same result if you try the following procedure with Saturation and color mode.

1. Open an image to for grayscale output.

2. Windows > Layers

3. Or Switch to Layers Palette.

4. Create new layer and fill it with white color.

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5. Change the blend mode to Hue.

6. You will get the same output with black color.

7. Always remember to keep the opacity 100% for proper result.