05-05-2018, 07:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-05-2018, 07:36 AM by Espermaschine.)
(05-05-2018, 07:06 AM)gimp-artist Wrote: Thanks for the very practical answer. I knew what I have read about modes in gimp Docs, but I did not know what the all the modes are for. Your answer gives me a lot of possibilities. I feel like I leveled up. Thanks mate.
Yeah, learning to understand blendmodes takes a bit of an odyssey.
I did the same as you, reading the descriptions in the Gimp manual, and although the developers did a great job of writing that up for us, its still a little dry.
Another good tip to remember is: 'Hard Light' is 'Screen' and 'Multiply' combined into one layermode.
So lets say you bumpmapped text into a 50% gray layer, which gives you a 3D look with shadows (black) and highlight (white).
When you set this layer to 'Hard Light', the grey will become invisible but the shadow and highlight will remain.