how to use the Layer Advanced Blending?

hey, everyone.
would anyone give out a precise description about the Advanced Blending of the Layer Style in PS6?

Thanx in advance.;)

I

have

no

idea

what

you're

talking

about.


Be clearer with your questions, please.

Thanx in advance.

i mean:
when u double click one of the layer on the layer pallet, the Layer Style dialogbox shows, u will see the "Blending Options: default"on the top of the left list, now, on the right part of this window there is the Advanced Blending

would u pls tell me usages about this?

I believe it just allows you more control over your effects.

For example, if you only want to affect one color channel with a desired drop shadow or a bevel. -or- You can restrict how strong these effects will be, by messing with the opacity as well.

just toy with it, that's what I did. I've been using version 6 since it's drop date, and I haven't used that too much, if ever. I'm sure someone does, though.

hope that helps.

yes —its a good question ... Advanced Blending is actually one of the most under-used features in Photoshop! You hardly ever see it used in tutorials, I guess because a lot of people dont know of its existence.

The blend modes in Photoshop are powerful but are limited in certain ways, these controls also affect the way the layer "blends" with the layers below it.

It gives you the ability to do three things which are unavailable elsewhere;

1 You can restrict the blending to seperate channels only

2 You can change the way layer effects interact with clipping groups (dont worry too much about this one)

3 This one I use all the time; You can cause certain parts of the layer (dark or light) to "clip out" completely by moving the sliders at the botttom of the (now huge) dialog. You can do this based on either the greyscale of the layer itself or on the greyscale of the underlying layers. This is extremely useful for all kinds of things: Example— lets say you have an object surrounded with white on layer1 and background layer. now move the right slider on the top of the two bars towards the center- the white surround dissapears - no selection required. Its very useful for quick easy selections.

Another tip here is to slide the points apart by holding down option(alt on windows). This will make the transitions smoother — try it.

There are certain times when you need to do something quickly and the ability to get rid of the darkest points or lightest points on a layer are exactly what you are looking for. Remember also that the blend modes are still available here too, giving you an infinate number of possibilities.

thanks. you just gived out the expert's words!

they make me remenber the Layer's Properties in PS3.0, which disappeared in Ps4 and 5, and now they have come back!

wow - you can remember version 3 !! :confused:

You must be one of the oldest users on the forum - first version I ever used was 5!