Scroll Blending Modes?

Is there any way to quickly change blending modes in CS3 without using the mouse? I'm envisioning a single click in the blending mode drop-down menu and then using the up and arrow keys to scroll through the list.
It's the kind of interface feature I've come to take for granted. Makes for much better speed and ergonomics than all that mousing and clicking, no?
BG

In the Keyboard Shortcut section you can assign single key shortcuts to the Next and Previous Blending mode command.

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So I've got this photoshop file Ive made for part of a flash
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mode. Can anyone tell me how I can achieve the same effect with the
layer from the photoshop file or if there is away to preserve
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Maybe overlay or screen would be closer to what you want.
If you would like to see how the blend modes work. Create a layer with black, 50% grey, and white on it. Duplicate the layer and invert it. This will flip the colors the opposite direction. Now with the top layer selected try the multiple, overlay and screen modes. While your at it go through the rest. On a PC when one blend mode has been selected you can use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the modes.

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I have 3 images all associated with each other. Image 'A' is made from images 'B' and 'C'. The three images were actually rendered in 3DS MAX as elements.
So in photoshop image 'B' multiply(blend mode) image 'C' = image 'A' then
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Maybe overlay or screen would be closer to what you want.
If you would like to see how the blend modes work. Create a layer with black, 50% grey, and white on it. Duplicate the layer and invert it. This will flip the colors the opposite direction. Now with the top layer selected try the multiple, overlay and screen modes. While your at it go through the rest. On a PC when one blend mode has been selected you can use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the modes.

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I have an object that I moved from another image and needed to resize. The object is an image of a bottle and glass, with both the bottle and glass having reflections from their base. They both also have some layer masks with the reflections. I grouped the glass and bottle and created a smat object before the move to the new file). Anyway everything worked fine, except the reflections are much stonger in the new file (they are sitting over the same colored backgrond as in the original. If I open up the smart object and put a background behind the images and the reflections (background is transparent)everthing looks as they should. The reflections have a blend mode of multiply).
So why does the smart object not render the reflections properly (without lowering the opacity more within the smart object group) they appear almost at 100% in the new file. Any suggestions?
Can't post the files as this happened at work.
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Anything to do with soft proofing? Does the new document have the same colour space as the original?

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I'm using CS5. I have a document with about 70 layers. I would like to change the blending mode to "lighten" for each layer. Is there an easy way to do this?

Photoshop doesn't allow multiple layer editing. That's why the styles are grayed out. Only 1 layer at a time.
What version are you talking about?
CS5 definitely let’s one apply a Style to multiple Layers.
rfcommagere, I don’t know how to make it much clearer:
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I wonder if there's a way to merge multiple objects with blending modes to one object. Here is the example:
On the left rhere are three objects with the same appearence but different blending modes(color dodge, normal, overlay), on the right they are overlapped, which are still three object. I'm looking for the way to have the same result as the right overlapped one, but as one object. Having the same multiple objects only for the result of color blending mode uses too much memory for my computer.
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create one object: then in your appearance panel, duplicate the fill twice. Select the top fill and expand the sub menu, click on opacity, choose blending mode. repeat.
G

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Hello,
In reading about the Hue blend mode, I have come to understand (perhaps erroneously) that given two layers (T)op and (B)ottom, that if the Blend Mode of T is set to Hue, then the hue information in T will be blended with the saturation and luminosity in B, which essentially means that the hue information in B is replaced by the hue information in T. However, in running some experiments, I've noticed that when dealing with a very simple document comprised of two layers only, that setting the Blend Mode to Hue also changes the saturation and brightness.
Here are the steps to duplicate the observed phenomena using two regular layers:
Create a new blank document.
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Fill the topmost layer with the color that corresponds to the HSB values (230, 70, 50).
Using the Info panel, the HSB values for the document should read as (230, 70, 50).
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Using the Info panel, the HSB values for the document should read as (230, 70, 50), but instead read as (230, 66, 53).
And here are the steps to duplicate the observed phenomena using a regular layer and an adjustment layer:
Create a new blank document.
Fill with the color that corresponds to the HSB values (0, 70, 50).
Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer (blend mode Normal).
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Using the Info panel, the HSB values for the document should read as (230, 70, 50).
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Using the Info panel, the HSB values for the document should read as (230, 70, 50), but instead read as (230, 66, 53).
The results in both (for me) are identical. Am I misunderstanding the Hue blend mode?
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Hi Chris,
Thanks very much for your straightforward and helpful answer. So, it would appear that my simplistic understanding of the Hue blend mode as 'replacing' the hue of the underlying layer(s) is incorrect. Would a fair rendering of what the Hue blend mode actually does be as follows?
"The Hue blend mode will perform a direct replacement of the hue in the underlying layer(s). The brightness and saturation of the underlying layer(s) will not be affected *unless* the resultant hue, saturation, and brightness 3-tuple would result in an illegal HSL combination, in which case the saturation and brightness of the resultant pixels will be altered to bring the HSL values into compliance."
Also, is there a way for the Info panel to display HSL values?
Thanks again,
Matt

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Hello.
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I am working on a logo but have run into what seems like a simple problem but nothing about masks that I have found seems to work. I have
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Blending Modes

Hi All,
I am creating a flyer in InDesign, I've got a logo to put at the bottom of the flyer, the logo is white with a black background, I've used the Screen blend mode to remove the black but I can now see a faint white space behind the logo... see attached image. I have Proof Colours, Overprint Preview & High Quality Display to show the neareat possible match to print.
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Always appreciated
Regards
James

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