Photoshop Blend Modes

 



This is the Photoshop Blend Modes project that I did. This was a relatively easy project. The only difficult parts of this project were trying to fit 25 faces of me on the screen. However, after some trial and error and cropping some parts of the image, I managed to fit all 25 little images of me on the screen. I like these types of introductory projects because they help you really ease into a new application; in this case, Photoshop. I enjoyed this project and would definitely do it again if I had to. 

Some of the many blend modes that I used were darken, multiply, overlay, hard/soft light, and many others. Darken compares the colors of the blending layer and the base layers and keeps the darker colors. Multiply darkens the layer based on the colors of the layers below it. Overlay uses screen at half strength on colors brighter than 50% gray, and multiply at half strength on colors darker than 50% gray. Hard light combines multiply and screen to create a contrasted effect. Lastly, soft light is similar to overlay, but with less intensity.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Self-portrait in Color Blogger

Image
This is the self portrait in color. I decided to make a piranha plant from Super Mario. The image below this was my inspiration for my work: I didn't want to just copy it completely. So, I decided to put my actual portrait instead of the piranha at the top and bottom right where the pipes are. I decided that as a final touch I would also put a question block from Super Mario. I thought it was a nice touch since there was a bunch of space above the three pipes with my portrait.  After the review, I made some changes to the self-portrait and now it looks like this:  I decided to make the background sky blue because to me it fits with the overall theme of the portrait in color. I added two bricks on the side of the question block because in the Super Mario games you can find two bricks and a question block in the middle in that order. I added coins because they can be found in that order as well. Finally, I added a star on the top of the middle pipe because the star is the best i...
Read more

Hierarchy on Grid

Image
 This project was one of the more difficult projects that I have done. The reason for this is because I could not think of any ideas to create on the first day.  For the first part of this project, I decided to create a sort of downwards curve with the components you gave me. In order to create hierarchy here, I placed chunks of placeholder text below and to the side of the components. I was actually going to keep the right side completely empty, however, I decided to put the placeholder text because I felt that there was too much white space. Putting the chunks of placeholder text on the right would make the viewer focus on the components going downward. For the second part of the project, I decided to firstly fill out the page with placeholder text. Then, I decided to create a sort of vertical zig zag with the components. One at the left, one on the right, etc. This would draw the viewers attention to the components.  For the third part of the project, I decided to...
Read more

6 Column Layout on 2 page spread

Image
This project was definitely one of the more difficult projects for me. Despite this, I really enjoyed the ability to use the images that I wanted. I decided to keep a recurring theme with all my images which was memes. Some are older than others and all involve an animal. The animals here are dogs, cats and one pig. Something that I could have done better in this project is choose better images. The big smiling cat at the top right is cut off because that is the only image I could find that wasn't blocked by something or had a background. I could have made the decision to keep the images only dogs and cats but I chose the pig because it stands out compared to the others. I also chose him because his name is John. John Pork. I really enjoyed this project and the help that you gave me with it and most definitely would do it again.   
Read more