SECTION HEAD
The
Mission
- Use Affinity Photo’s layer
blending controls to
combine several photos
Time
- 15 minutes
Skill level
- Intermediate
Kit needed
- Affinity Photo
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James Paterson creates a quick and easy double
exposure effect in Affinity Photo with layer blending
One of the strongest aspects of
Affinity Photo is the number of
different options you have for
blending photos together. Many
of these features are on a par
with Affinity’s premium rival,
Adobe Photoshop.
Layer blending modes are fun
and very easy to get to grips with.
They work by combining the
pixels on one layer with those on
the layers below. So by dropping
one image on top of another, then
changing the blending mode, we
can begin to merge two or more
images in all kinds of creativeways. There are 31 blend modes
to experiment with (as opposed
to Photoshop’s 27), so by
combining several images with
different blend modes, the
possibilities are near-limitless.
A classic approach to layer
blending is the double or multiple
exposure effect. This mimics the
look of old film multiple
exposures, where a single frame
of film would be exposed twice or
more to create a series of overlaid
images. In-camera, this would be
done by winding the frame back
to expose it again.We can replicate this look with
the Screen layer blend mode.
This works in a similar way, by
combining the brightness values
of the pixels on the blend layer
with those on the layers below.
As such, bright areas will only
stay the same or get brighter,
never darker. Once blended,
we can go on to fine-tune the
positioning of each image that
makes up our composite. This
way, we have complete control
over the effect. The results are
unpredictable, fun, and
endlessly creative...WATCH ON YOUR
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