Layers are a massively important part of digital painting, allowing you to organize and separate out different parts of your artwork. But there are many extra tricks that layers have to offer, one of ...

In Photoshop you can use the blend modes to change how layers interact with each other, thus producing interesting artwork. Think of each layer as a transparent glass canvas, what is placed on the top ...

In Adobe Photoshop, blend modes, in their simplest form, are devices that control how pixels in two separate layers interact with and affect each other. The base is the bottom layer and the blend is ...

Question: Do you have any idea what the following terms mean? Multiply, Screen, Layover, Soft Light, Hard Light, Color Dodge, Color Burn, Addition, Difference, Darken, Lighten, Hue, Saturation, Color ...

Included within the assortment of tools you can use in Photoshop is the blend feature. If used properly, your image can be notably enhanced in terms of its appearance. Even combining various simple ...

It’s fairly easy to blend two images in GIMP. All you have to do is: Open the two Images in GIMP. Blend the images using layer opacity/blend mode/layer mask. Export the resultant image as JPEG/PNG.

Last column, I discussed the “Lighten” and “Darken” blending modes in Photoshop, which you can use as an effect on an underlying layer. However, there are more powerful methods of combining blending ...