What are Blend modes good for? - Affinity Photo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- This video explains why and when you use Blend Modes. Instead of a technical description, this video gives an artistic view. Understand Blend Modes in the way you actually use them. Know what Categories off Blend Modes are the most important.
In this Video:
Dark Blend Modes are for blending dark Elements with your other layers
Light Blend Modes are for blending bright Elements with your other layers
Overlay Blend Modes are good for atmospheric blending effects
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This video taught me in minutes what I've been trying to learn by myself in years. Thank You
You’ve just made me realize that I need a new folder labeled “Most Helpful.” Blend modes are amazing, but often confusing. Plus, I’m glad I can avoid “crazy town!” 😆 YES! Please do more on blend modes! ❤️
Thank you, Anne :) Yes Crazy Town is really something special that can be avoided until later :)
I appreciate your explanations, so easy to understand and helpful. Now I realize all the possibilities of the blend modes, thank you! And yes, please do more.
Brand new to Affinity Photo and your videos are so helpful! Very clear and understandable without the technical mambo jumbo… thank you!! 😁
Thanks Olivio for this and all of your Affinity videos. You've really helped me turn the corner on learning and experimenting, particularly with your advising not trying to learn the nitty gritty technical background, but use one's own artistic sense. It has really helped a lot, so that I feel like I am using a pallete, rather than an a hopeless morass of digital mysteries and technical gotchas.
This has really helped me to to get to grips with the different blend modes. Thank you so much for this video 😊
Really solid lesson on blend modes, thank you
I swear you have every a video for every thing I need to know about affinity photo. thank you sooo much!
Happy new Hera! Thanks for your enlightmemr videos Olivio
This will help me experiment with Affinity Designer... to hopefully make attention-holding progressions in teaching videos. Thanks
Again......this is the best explanation ever about blend mode.....finally. Thanks Oli. You're the man.
Thank you Olivio! Great practical information! Well done!
Admirably clear and purposeful.
I love blend modes. It was really refreshing to have them explained from an artistic point of view rather than a technical one. Good job!
Thank you, Patricia. Very happy I could help you with this video :)
That was very helpful Olivio. I can see that I have been too timid. It's time to experiment. Many thanks.
Really helpful. Layers have always mystified me, and now I want to go and practice!
Hi Olivio, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge witrh us !
Excellent tutorial on blend modes.
Brilliant, Has helped me to understand blend modes. Keep up the good work
Good video. Don't know how I'll ever keep up with all of it. But it's something to play with.
another slick tutorial! im lapping them up!! keep em coming! Thankyou!
Wow! I've used blend modes, but in a very limited way. It is very cool what you can do with it. Thank you for making it simple to understand. Again, well done!
Thank you, Eric. Happy I could help :)
"Crazy Town" I so love your descriptions...Great channel Sir..thank you for this great explanation!
😂 thank you. i love to keep it light :)
As always awesome input Mr olivio thank you 👍👍
Excellent Tutorial. Thanks a lot
Excellent a very good tutorial, many thanks
Excellent tutorial and channel! I was trying to give to my photos some "fogsy vintage style" and it was so simple like add a white layer and soft light with some adjustment (or I'm doing it wrong again? ha ha ha).
Thank you so much! greetings from Argentina!
A very informative way of describing when to use darker modes vs lighter modes. Cheers
Happy I could help, Anders Utterstrom
Wow, really intuitive, thank you.
Inzwischen zum 3. x angesehen und finde es immer wieder interessant.
Danke, Oli und liebe Grüße aus NÖ!
Danke, das freut mich :)
Big thanks for the insights. Exactly what I was looking for 😉
Stay creative!
You are welcome, Elmar Harbecke
You’ve got yourself a new sub. Keep up the good work 👍
excellent Mr. Sarikas!!!
This was a very informative video. Thank you for making these videos!
Thank you :)
This systematization is really helpful. Thanks for this.
You are welcome, Sandcity
Hello and thank you Olivio, more good ideas that are simple but bring real pleasure to our eyes....
Happy to hear that, Alain :)
absolutely brilliant
THANK you!!!! You are soooooooo good! Crazy!😁😁😁 I love it!
Thanks Olivio, really an amazing lesson !
Thank you, Ricardo :)
I love you. My sensei forever !!!!😍
Brilliant! Coming from an engineering background, I always struggle, but now I have brain connections I can use like a recipe of steps.
Happy to hear that, parrottm76262
Thanks so much for this!
You are welcome, SFCRen
Brilliant thank you 💪🏻
You are welcome, Etienne Fraai
Thank you!!!!
Awesome, thank you so much :-)
Superb
Olivio, which blend mode did you use on your beard?! Awesome video, thanks.
Thanks for this, I always struggled to understand how to use blend modes, Feel like a light bulb has just switched on 💡
You are welcome, Apollo
I most commonly use blend modes on brushes, clone brush specifically. Lighten and darken respectively.
I will do that in a future video :)
Thank you! :)
You're welcome!
Luminosity blend mode is nice when u use generated textures
I could have done with this intro last year at this time, I transposed over from Photoshop tutorials from Blake Rudis with some mental high jinks. There's something you could have added though, especially at the end when illustrating hard light, that mode and all the others too can be diminished by using the opacity tool to reduce that particular effect so you can tune it in to your taste.
Yes, that's true. Although there are so many little Blend Mode tricks, this video could have easily been 3 hours long and still not cover everything ;)
hard light does not work with opacity;ity you have to use the FILL adjustment.
Hi Olivio! Could you make a video on how to make shiny colors like no opach but as it looks if it be under the glass or something. And other tutorial is: how to draw fluffy character. Like not with curves but real fluffy as if would be a real cat or a dandelion for example. This do not work for me with curves. I don;t know what to try to get it right. Thanks in advance!
bei Deinen Affinityfilmen eröffnen sich mir immer neue Welten. Vielen Dank dafür. Hast Du schon mal daran gedacht, Kurse im real live zu geben? So Wochenenden oder so?
Danke, das freut mich wirklich sehr :) - Kurse Vorort wären gut, aber dafür ist meine Community denke ich nicht groß genug und ich leben ja in Wien. Mit Anreise nach D würde sowas dann doch recht teuer werden für die Teilnehmer in kleinem Kreis
Thanks for this video. I've recently been getting into using blend modes and gradients. This is helpful.
Off the subject but is there anyway to make a guides manager preset? I find myself using the same guide lines but always having to type them in is time consuming. Thank you.
Thank you, Zachery. You could create Master Files with the Guides set up as you need them, then save them as Template files: File -> Export as Template :)
@@OlivioSarikas Thank you for the help. It is greatly appreciated. That made it a lot easier.
Danke für das sehr gute Video, schön auf den Punkt gebracht. Und das wichtigste : man muß nicht unbedingt die Technik dahinter verstehen. Da du ja in Wien lebst, denke ich, das ich hier 🇩🇪 antworten kann. Dachte immer, du seist Grieche, wegen dem Bart und dem Namen.
Hi Enrico, mein Vater ist Grieche - ich also halber Grieche oder so? Naja, ich kann kein Griechisch, also eher ein Hauch Mittelmeer ;) - Du kannst gerne auf Deutsch kommentieren, aber englisch wäre insofern besser das es dann alle verstehen die hier gucken ;)
@@OlivioSarikas danke für die schnelle Antwort. Ist nur leider so, dass ich deinem Englisch halbwegs folgen kann aber es selbst nicht beherrsche. Das kam damals in der DDR zu kurz und da war russisch Pflicht. Nur mal so nebenbei. Klar lässt sich alles lernen.....
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Any tips or recommendations on plug ins for Affinity what like Nik Collection or Snapssed does? Also what do you think - will future Afinity update include library? I am still between Lightroom, Photo app and Affinity. Kind of disturbed .,. will appreciate an answer or maybe a tutorial to adress these. Thanks !
Hi Mike, i actually don't use any other plug-ins, besides Nik Collection. About future Affinity developments: They are very secretive about it. Not even TH-camrs get informed upfront
Please, sir, can we have some more...? Thanks!
Yes you can :)
We really need a layer FILL capability like we have in photoshop . Can you try to help make that happen. Without the FILL capability the 8 special blend modes are not very useful.. Thanks
Click on the "Effects" tab with the layer selected you want to change. There, in the "Effects" Tab you will find the Fill slider
Is there a written guide to how the blend modes work? Looking for a detailed treatment. Thank you!
you can basically google it and find a list with also image examples, because blend modes are working basically the same way in all the different programms out there
@@OlivioSarikas Thank you!
How did you add the images, on top of each other.
You can eiterh drag them into a open file, or go via the menu "File -> Place". Make sure that when you use the "place" function that "all documents" is selected and not just "txt files", or otherwise you won't see any photos to select from
Hello Olivio, I somewhat disagree with you regarding the "other " blend modes. To me this is where you can get most of the artistic effects! I use the color, luminosity, hard light, vivid light and most others as extensively as as the darken, lighten and contrast categories you talked about. I use the 8 blend modes that work with the FILL adjustment rather than the OPACITY adjustment all the time for color grading. You and your readers might be interested in this web site that explains all the blend modes very well theeagerlearner.com/your-big-friendly-guide-to-layer-blend-modes/
Hi Hans, Thank you for the Link. Very nice, short descriptions :) if you look at my video again, i do include the Blend Modes like hard light and vivid light. The Luminosity and Color channel can be useful, but i would suggest them only to more advanced users. The Blend Modes i was refering to are things like Difference, Exclusion, Average, Contrast Negate and such. They are rather specialized and you very rarely if ever need them. I would rather suggest to beginners to use adjustment layers and figure out how those work first, so they have a better understanding.
@@OlivioSarikas Hello I use the average blend mode to remove color casts and use the difference blend mode a lot here is a good video on how to use it: th-cam.com/video/nbSJEIvEc8g/w-d-xo.html
Drippy Cat used to do quite a few AP tutorials but I have not seen anything now in a few years so not sure what happened. Thanks for the link.
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I don't understand the blend mode for 5 years ago. I random only.
Thank you. You are the frist person that I understand.
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🖖🏼👍🏼✌🏼🌈🍀 nice!
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