BLEND INTERIOR
EFFECTS AS GROUP
This option affects order of operations
for what are called “interior” effects:
Inner Glow, Satin, and the three Overlay
effects (Color, Gradient, and Pattern).
Recall how the Fill slider affects layer
content while the Opacity slider affects
the entire layer, well, if you lower the Fill
percentage of a layer with a layer style
applied, the content disappears, but the
style remains visible. Lowering the Opac-
ity causes the styles to become transpar-
ent, also. Blend Interior Effects as Group
(in the Advanced Blending Options of
the Layer Style dialog), however, causes
the interior effects to be blended and
then become part of the layer content,
rather than blended separately. When
blended with the layer content (i.e., the
box is checked), the Fill slider no longer
ignores these styles.
An interesting side effect of this
option is that it makes these three styles
subject to the layer blending mode, just
like regular content. When unchecked,
these styles ignore layer blending modes,
except as set in their specific options. In
this example, we’ve used Inner Glow set
to Subtract blending mode and a rust
Pattern Overlay set to Multiply. The main
layer content is set to Normal in the first
image (it’s simply the inverse of the bot-
tom gradient), then to Color Dodge for
the next two, showing how the effects
blend with the layer pixels and then the
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