Blend Mode Problem

Hi:
I recently found that with Photoshop CS5 the Blend Mode Behind is not operative. Using it produces nothing whatsoever. I have already tried resetting the Brush tool but this had no effect. Any suggestions?
Herman R.

Hi Charles:
I was following a tutorial on CS5 from Lynda.com and the narrator didn't
make clear what he was doing. Now I realize that Behind blend mode only
paints on transparency and I've got it to work. Just a misunderstanding.
Thanks for your input.
Herman R.

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Wmode transparent and blend mode problem

Dear all,
I'm stuck with this problem so far, got headache after searching many days on google without solution. Our designer using blend mode: screen (in flash) for some movies and the flash's transparent to save the file size display and then ưe are using html background. All'r working fine for wmode transparent but in Internet Explorer, it's not working to display the blend mode and appear the black background. You can check the image below to see what happen:
Loading the movies within blend mode screen
Transparent's working fine with the normal transparent
Test blend mode with opaque wmode to see how it will display
I've tested with IE7, 8, 9. I'm using window 7 Ultimate, 64bit, Flash player latest version. (And my clients, friends, also got that issues when seeing it with IE).
My embed code:
<object width="1000" height="600" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" >
<param value="high" name="quality"></param>
<param value="intro.swf" name="movie"></param>
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<embed width="1000" height="600" wmode="opaque" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="high" src="intro.swf">
</object>
We can solve it manually that put the image background into the flash but it's not the good way to do it in our modern web industry.
Any solution?

dont why i can't submit in the bugbase, it's just hanged out though i submit all the required information T.T
Update: the bug only with IE9. (i concerned IE 7, 8 because i've tested it by IE9 development tool, not real IE 7, 8). Today i've tried testing with real IE7, 8 and it's working fine.

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I have little problem here. Let's say I have movieClip mc1 and inside it has movieClip mc2 (nested). If I set any blend mode to mc2 and then turn cacheAsBitmap on for mc1, the blend mode is not displayed at all. I have noticed this problem in flash cs3 as well as cs4. Is there any workaround how to make this work?

regarding your second question:
-according to the docs, yes it should be the same. but according to some users opinion here on the forum, no. Aparently there is a performance difference if you set the cacheAsBitmap property on a Bitmap.

Fireworks PNG - FXG - FC. It Works! With Blend modes!=)

but it has some isues...
1) blend modes problem: if you put on object some COLOR BURN IT READS IT AS blendMode="-1" and you get picture of blanc screen and library of empty groups and so on. the point is it does not work... (so if you had any powers to edit the code you might solve the problen)
2) if it has any style on the object it turns it into a bit map...
3) no round corners transport
but ewerething else is great... with help of fb then it can be turned into a sweet candy
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0) Once like this?
FW is not open source and is not free for use so
1)Who will be paying me for such stuff ?
2)How much(or will be giving me what)?

Problems with blending modes

Hi,
I have a layer with a solid color (212º,93,78) on top of which I have another layer with a solid color (205º,100,74). Call this second layer the blend layer. I then choose for it a blending mode of Color, and the resulting color in the top layer is (205º,100, 74). If instead I choose the luminosity blending mode, the resulting color in the top layer is (212º,93,78).
---all these are HSB coordinates.
According to the documentation. color and luminosity blending modes should behave differently:
Color
Creates a result color with the luminance of the base color and the hue and saturation of the blend color. This preserves the gray levels in the image and is useful for coloring monochrome images and for tinting color images.
------ the luminance of the base color is 78 (at least the brightness anyway - I know of no method to get the luminance)
Luminosity
Creates a result color with the hue and saturation of the base color and the luminance of the blend color. This mode creates the inverse effect of Color mode.
------- in this case everything is equal, which seems to me is not right.
Some light?
Juan Dent

Generally speaking, Photoshop works fine with Windows 8 but the display drivers aren't all up to the task yet, and Photoshop uses the GPU for a lot of stuff.
What video card do you have?
You might find you can go into Edit - Preferences - Performance in Photoshop and disable the usage of GPU (the setting is called [ ] Use Graphics Processor in Photoshop CS6, and [ ] Enable OpenGL Drawing in earlier versions). It's also possible that you might find things to work better if you leve the GPU enabled but change the advanced mode for it to a lower setting, such as Basic.
In a general answer to your question, yes, I imagine there will be updates through Windows Update and from Adobe that will correct the problems. You may be able to accelerate the fix by visiting the web site of the maker of your video card and downloading their recent driver release (though I caution against this with ATI drivers right now - their latest aren't really too good).
-Noel

Problem with Linear Dodge blending mode

I cannot get the Linear Dodge blending mode to work correctly on a separate layer. I made a new layer and set the blending mode to 'Linear Dodge,' but when I draw on it, it simply acts like it is set to 'Normal'. There is a distinct difference between when I draw on the separate layer and when I draw on the layer it is supposed to be affecting using a brush set to Linear Dodge mode.
Here is an image to illustrate my problem:
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4592/lineardodgeus7.png
The left streak is drawn on the 'highlights' layer, which is a blank layer set to Linear Dodge blending mode and clipped to 'color.' The right streak is drawn on the 'color' layer (which has the purple coloring on it) with a brush set to Linear Dodge mode.
What am I missing here? I'm trying to get the Linear Dodge to look the same whether or not it's drawn on a different layer.

To get your Linear Dodge layer to behave the same way as your brush set to Linear Dodge try this ... activate your "highlights' layer. Go to Edit/Fill. For contents choose black, for blending choose "behind"
Its only when dodge interacts with black that the burned haloing that you are looking for starts to happen.(this includes color dodge and Linear dodge) - I don't know why this is but it has something to to with the blend mode math.

Has anyone ever encountered layer blend modes behaving strangely?

I use photoshop quite a bit for retouching and photo compositing. Tonight I encountered a strange problem. I was trying to create a vintage look on a photo and had a number of adjustment layers including a curves, levels, color fill and there were also a few texture/noise layers all set to varying opacities. Near the top of all this I had a vignette layer that was black around the edges and white in the center set to blend mode of multiply. Well, when I was clicking on and off I realize that that vignette layer was definitely lightening the center part of the overall image quite a bit (the part that is white on the vignette layer), almost like a screen. So I flipped the vignette layer through different opacity modes and saw that there was no change in its behavior, every mode was screening the white, even darker color and multiply. I thought maybe it was interacting in a weird way with one of the other layers so I turned all the others off except the back ground-- still no change. Then I dropped the layer down one at time until it was below the background. When I started to move it up again, it was behaving normally for a moment until I moved it up a couple levels in the stacking order and then it went back to the screen behavior. Anyway I shuffled it around a bit but there was no consitency to when it would display the correct opacity and when it wouldn't, so it did not seem to be an interaction with any specific layer. I don't know, but I can't really think of any case where white set to multiply should produce a lighter result even if it were interacting with another opacity. In any case it does seem to me that there is something going on with the overall computation of opacities. I tried creating a new black and white layer and it was also doing the same thing, behaving strange and not displaying the correct opacity.
I'm tired, so I'm going to bed. I'm going to shut off the computer and hope this goes away when I reboot, but if it does not, does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm not a regular visitor to this forum, but I thought I'd put it out there in case anyone else has experienced anything like this. I've only got 5 gigs of ram on this computer and I've been working away for a while... maybe photoshop just couldn't keep up(?) I'm using Photoshop CS5, RGB Adobe 1998 colorspace. I've never had anything like this happen in the last 11 years I've been using photoshop. Hmmm.... hope I don't have to reinstall or call support or worse. fingers crossed.

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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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As you can see the logo itself looks fine and I thought it was ready to use.
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Thanks,
Ben.

Thank you for replying Monika,
I have copied the Paths but dont understand what you mean by expand the 3D effect. With the text I was able to click ungroup and edit the individual sides. I am unable to do this with the logo, I dont know exactly why. Also when I combine all my paths they just go into one group. You will have to excuse me, I still have a lot to learn.
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Ben.

Aliased text on PDF export with blending modes

So I've had this issue with a pdf, I tried to export it CMYK, RVB, interactive pdf, regular pdf, with tons of different other options, the text was still very aliased.
I decided to take it back from scratch, openned a new document with the same size, and copied/pasted element after element from the old one to the new one, exporting as pdf between each copy/paste. The first exports went really well, the render was great… until I pasted a vector element that was applied with a blending mode (overlay).
When I switched it to normal, the pdf export was smooth again. Tried every blending mode, everyone makes the text jaggy. Switch back, it's ok. So I'm 100% sure that this comes from blending modes, as opposed to what I could have read on other forums.
This is a request, please, InDesign team, take care of this problem, this is quite annoying in many cases.
Thank you for your attention!
Twitted here as well : https://twitter.com/grinderlabs/status/448381486627311616

To minmize the possibility of rasterizing or outlining text when transparency is flattened, keep the text above any transparent objects. Blending modes, along with most effects, use transparency.
You can also minimize the risk by exporting the PDF with live transparency, which is supported in Acrobat 5 or higher compatibility.

ONLY screen blending mode doesn't work...?

I have Windows 8, and Photoshop CS6. All of my blending modes work, except for Screen. I don't know why it doesn't, but I do use it somewhat frequently, and it's really holding me back at this point.
Is this related to all the other problems people have been having with Photoshop running on Windows 8? Or is this an issue that I'm going to have to fix myself, somehow?
Thanks!

Do you see the problem if you disable the [ ] Use Graphics Processor setting entirely (remembering to restart Photoshop before testing)?
What video card (aka graphics adapter) do you have in your system?
What driver version are you running?
Have you looked for alternative versions e.g., on nVidia.com or AMD.com?
-Noel

Is there a way to quickly preview blend modes, similar to the shift+ and shift- like AfterAffects?

This would seem to be a no brainer but nobody seems to know the answer.... I have a hard time believing I have to endure the sea-saw process of clicking on a given blend mode each time I want to preview an affect.

The next issue you will find with Blend Modes is "Opacity Droppings"
Anyone that uses Blend Modes...naturally uses Opacity as part of the setting. ie. the degree of blend.
(The two work hand in hand.)
Problem is.. as soon as you do this... an automatic opacity keyframe is created.
This is guaranteed to drive you nuts!
It does not work this way in AEFX . where it is more logically and practically implemented with a normal way of setting a keyframe manually.

Question about stacked objects using blend modes

Say there are three stacked objects. The two topmost have a blend mode.
In the area where all 3 intersect, the bottom object interacts with the transparency. Is there a way to limit how many levels the transparency affects? If you could limit it to two levels, then in the area where all three intersect the bottom object wouldn't participate in the blending. But in the areas where it overlaps only one of the topmost objects, it would participate.
I know this can be achieved by creating another object, or using the Pathfinder, I'd just like to know if there is a simpler method to use.

The attached PDF explains this better. Page 1 - the yellow and magenta are multiplied on top. But the cyan in not participating in the area where all 3 overlap. But in the areas with only 2 levels, it does participate, so there are the green and blue overlaps.
Since the cyan is negated from the one area, the result is red – yellow and magenta multiplying
The problem is, the only way to get this is to punch a hole in the cyan. So when you move the yellow and magenta around, the red doesn't follow (see page 2)
It would be nice if the blend modes included some sort of level limit. Default would be unlimited, but you could change it to 2 or whatever number you want. In this case if the level was 2, no hole in the cyan would be required.
As far as I know Adobe has not added to transparency capabilities for a long time. You have the 16 bend modes, and opacities. And knock out group and isolate blending, which are good features. But maybe it's time to expand on this and add more points of control.

Dynamic Link Blending Modes

Hello Premiere Pro´s
Is there a way where an After Effects Dynamic Linked comp imported into Premiere Pro can preserve its blending modes to the outside layers in a sequence?
A little like the logic of the continuously rasterize option that exists in After Effects.

That´s what i was suspecting, but that feature would be a great add. ( Plus solving another workflow issue i´m having also with dinamic lynk. )
My feature is very heavy on the use of dynamic linking. And in this case i have a Premiere sequence "edit" that i would like to be imported into AFX via dinamic link - then compose FX on top and then re-import that AFX Comp into the same Premiere Project into a "final" sequence. But this workflow gives me loop redundancy problem that makes Premiere dont update its dynamic linking, unless i close and open the app.
So my second try was importing the "effects ae comp" into premiere and hope there could be some workaround where the blending modes could pass into dinamic link, like the logic of the continuously rasterize option.
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Regards

{PC CC2014} Blending modes REFUSES to export

Hi there,
I'm not exactly the strongest when it comes to Illustrator, so hopefully this isn't some stupid preference issue on my part, but...
I'm having an issue with my blending modes. Basically I have 3 stars, larger to smaller, top to bottom. I have a simple shape with 67% gray in multiply mode to create a "Texas Star" effect. The issue, is that when I go to export this file to ANY format, or I copy and paste it out, that 67% gray shape just sits on top. It refuses to go anywhere. I've tried expanding, even rasterizing (though that gives the SAME error). Nothing seems to work.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I know that I'm not extremely strong in illustrator (I can just hack my way through it). Perhaps someone else might know of how to fix this issue. Yes, I know I can copy and paste, then copy and paste the blend mode in PS and re export, even live trace if necessary, BUT I'm trying to figure this issue out. I REFUSE to do that for all my blend modes FOREVER. Something I wrong, I just don't know what.
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t1.0-9/10563173_10152595627323524_5 65109011631487628_n.jpg
So it's VERY complicated, lots of crap all over. Like I said, I'm not very good at illustrator, just good enough to bludgeon my way through like two virgins on wedding night.
That said, I don't know if you can see it or not, but on the top and bottom row, are stars.
So I created a star with a layer atop it that had the multiply for the seen effect, duplicated it, made the duplicate a color variation, and did a blend. Expanded them, grouped them.
Now, whenever I try to export this in ANY way, it has problems. When I have a multiply blend mode, and I try ANY method to export it (other than screen capture), it comes out like this:
Notice how the stars just have that gray block in front of them. That's the problem. This does not seem to happen in other files, just on this one. What might I be missing?
PS, Just starting to work for the client, just making quick short changes, if anyone sees anything to change real quick, let me know, please. I'll gladly take other advice as well.
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Alpha, blending modes and compositions

Hello, I am an animator and have a problem with blending modes in a composition. Hopefully someone can help me.
I use After Effects CS5 on Mac OS.
Please take a look at this screenshot:
I have several layers in a composition (trees and shadows). The trees are set to normal and the shadows are set to multiply. Outside of this composition there are other elements on layers.
The problem is that I get this edge between shadows and trees where the multiply does not apply. I need it to be applyed to the "outside" layer too.
Trying to look my problem up on the internet I found out that the blending mode "alpha add" could solve my problem but I need multiply and alpha add, if that makes sense.
Can I somehow get rid of this edge?

Multiply is being applied to all pixels, it's just that the pixels around the edge are not the same color. You can use Matte tools to refine or choke the edges. (Effect>Matte>Matte Choker) If you very carefully look at the pixel values on the edges of your illustration while viewing the info palette you'll see that you have some semi transparent pixels on the edges. That is where you problem comes from. Alpha add will help in matching antialiased edges but it will not help in your situation.

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