Blend Mode Options

Hi. I've recently downloaded Photoshop CS6 trial version and i've tried to add a flare to a transparent background image and turn the blend option to colour dodge or screen but when i do so the black bg does no go. It stays there but i have seen in many other exampls video and i've even done it myself at school computers and at my home computer once but this time it just wont do it?
Example:
I open a signature for a forum i made with a transparent background.
I import a flare. It has a black bg.
Turn blend mode option to screen and the flare goes above the text but the black bg is still actually there.
Help please?

It's never worked as you think.  It has to do with how the various blending modes mix layers over pixels that have transparency, and that hasn't changed in recent history.
But that's neither here nor there.  In order to save a PNG that has the ability to combine with page data below it, you're going to have to prepare your flare to use Normal blending, and use layer transparency to combine it.
One way is to use the luminosity of the flare itself as a layer mask, which will have the effect of eliminating the black surroundings.  However, that will end up dark and leave some black in the pixels that do show, and that could conceivably combine in an unnatural looking way with light surroundings (i.e., darkening them).  You'll want to use such a PNG over the top of a dark background.  You can mitigate this some by doing things to the pixels of the flare layer while leaving the mask alone, such as pulling up the curves and increasing color saturation.
-Noel

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