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EXPERIMENTING

WITH BLEND MODES

Next, I’m going to play around

with a few adjustments to the

lips using other blend modes to

demonstrate some of the differ-

ent looks you can achieve. First,

I created another merged layer at

the top of the layer stack, added

another new Hue/Saturation

layer, set the Hue to –134 in the

Properties panel, and copied the

lip layer mask as described above

from the rainbow color layer to

this new Hue/Saturation layer.

Now that I have the Hue/Sat-

uration layer set up and masked,

I can play around and see what

happens as I switch between

blend modes. Here are the ones

I used: Normal, Darken, Linear

Dodge (Add), Soft Light, Exclu-

sion, Divide, and Hue. (Note: For

some of them, I played around

with the Blend If sliders in the

Layer Style dialog. The sliders

give you even more control over

how the two layers blend with

each other. To access the Blend

If sliders, double-click to the right

of the Hue/Saturation layer’s

name in the Layers panel. To split

a slider into two parts, Option-

click [PC: Alt-click] it. Splitting

sliders will give you smoother

transitions.) Each of the example

images looks significantly differ-

ent, even though they all have

the same Hue/Saturation layer.

That’s the magic of exploring the

different blend modes.

I hope this inspires you to play

around with layer blend modes.

As you can see, they create very

versatile looks. Now get out

there and have some fun with

your images! n

Normal

Soft Light

Hue