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During this Photoshop Elements 15 tutorial video, we will take a look at the use of blending modes. We will show you the effects of blending to an image and demonstrate some examples of the blending modes such as darken, color burn, vivid, soft light and more.

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on PSE 15.
In this section we’re going to look at another very important topic and I’m going to relate this directly to the use of layers, although it actually occurs in a number of different situations in PSE, not just in working with layers. And what we’re going to look at is blending or the use of blending modes.

I’ve created here what was initially a completely empty document, white background etcetera, and I’ve pasted onto it a layer with the flowers and a little bit of green from an iris. And a very important aspect of the use of PSE, particularly in terms of achieving effects is how an object such as this iris flower blends with the background, which might well be for example layers beneath the iris flower in this case. Let’s take a look at Blending Modes.

Now one very important point to make here is that blending mode is not to be confused with opacity. If I adjust the opacity of the iris layer here you certainly can start to see through the iris but what’s behind it doesn’t really have an effect on the iris itself. It only starts to become visible. When we’re dealing with blending mode we’re talking about how the color of the iris and the color of what’s behind it interact with each other. So far when we’ve been using layers we’ve had this setting here set to normal. And this is the setting that we use to specify blending mode.

Let’s try an alternative. And the first one I’m going to try is darken. You may be a little bit surprised to find that darken had no effect whatsoever and you’ll understand why in just a moment. Let’s try a different one. This time I’m going to try color burn. Now this one has quite a dramatic effect in that you can’t see the iris at all. Again you’ll understand why in a moment.

Let’s talk now about some terminology. When we’re blending we’re dealing with two colors. We’re dealing with the base color or in this case the base layer and we’re dealing with the blend color or the blend layer. In our particular situation here the base layer is the background copy layer which is white and the blend layer contains the iris which is far from white. And when we’re talking about blending modes we’re talking about the way that the blend layer here and the base layer here interact with each other. One of the reasons that the two effects that you saw just now were so extreme, i.e., one of them had no effect whatsoever and the other one caused the iris to disappear is because our base layer here is white. What I’m going to do is to select that base layer and change its color.

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