13Image Blending

WWW To download the web content for this chapter go to the website www.routledge.com/cw/wright, select this book then click on Chapter 13.

Compositing is all about blending images together so here we will take a close look at image-blending operations. There are two classes – the alpha compositing operations such as the Over or Inside, and image-blending operations such as Screen or Multiply. For the alpha-compositing ops we will look at the six most common, how they work, and when to use them. For the image-blending ops we will look at their six most common, how they work, and how to modify their results.

There is also a section on the Adobe Photoshop blending modes for the simple reason that compositors can be presented ...

Get Digital Compositing for Film and Video, 4th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.