Advanced blending modes

hi guys, im looking for a tutorial concerning the advanced blending modes for photoshop 7.0.

Im not only talking about the 2 sliders, but about the 'knockout' pulldown menu, and the 5 checkboxes beneath it.

Any suggestions?

Tnx guys

Yearh I can teach you :p Well, don't know where there are any tutorials about it...

ah, thats nice, tnx ...

I understand the sliders, its just the pulldown menu and the checkboxes. I've tried it several times, but i cant see any differences between my imagens when i check or uncheck one of the boxes.

Go to photoshop help and click search. Then search for "overlay". Click on the 5th result down - "Selecting a Blend Mode" Brief descriptions of the modes are there...

To understand "overlay":
Make an all red layer and apply a lighting effect to it (filter>render...>lighting effects). Maybe two "omni" lights - one in each corner. Then make a new layer and use the paint bucket to add a pattern (grids or scan lines work best). Select "overlay" from the pulldown menu for the pattern layer and you'll see that the image changes - it uses the lighting from the other layer (I think).

Does somebody want to breifly explain (like I have) the rest of them? I only understand overlay.

tom

well it's kinda complicated... maybe that's why ... I think I'll make a tutorial on this instead of writing it here (would take sooo much space and I'd like to have some screenshots to show) So I you could wait a couple of days, that would be great

I just read your post again and realized that I didn't understand your question. But please explain the other blending modes to me anyways.

tom

trhaynes, for understanding the basic blending modes:

http://www.thinkdan.com/tutorials/photoshop/blendingmodes/

this is for photoshop 5, but it's the same principle for 6 and 7 (however in 7 there are several others).

hope this helps

kisaragi it's a nice tutorial there, but it really has nothing to do with the question That's really the basic blending modes in PS... the advanced is the knockout and dropouts Think I'll just make that tutorial

Okay I've made the tutorial, might seem a bit long, but you can just read some of the last pages and hope you understand it all. I'd advise you read it all though Please enjoy it, and I hope it answers a few of your questions... If I spelled anything wrong, I hope you get the whole meaning, my english isn't that good, sorry...

Thanks for the blending modes page. As for the real question - I think you neglected to include a link to your tutorial. Maybe I'm wrong though. What "knockout" menu are you guys talking about?

tom