Lesson D: Blend If
This lesson has a couple of objectives. The first is to expose you to a cool but tricky masking technique. But the file’s content is a nontrivial example of the last two lessons combining layer styles and filters applied to Smart Objects. If you experiment with those “Smart Filters” and styles, be sure to save a copy!
Now That’s Shady
- Open the file “D Blend If.psd.” Don’t yet judge how silly it looks.
That lightning layer at the top is visible where it shouldn’t be: where it’s dark. I will admit that simply changing the blend mode from Normal to Screen or Color Dodge looks promising, and we may end up doing so, but for now leave the mode set to Normal.
- With the lightning layer highlighted, access the layer’s Blending ...
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