Blending Modes Shortcut

While using Photoshop, many times I try to use the shortcut "shift +" or "shift -" to circle through the blending modes. However, this shortcut often doesn't work, especially after I've had the program open for a while. I've tried deleting the "plist" for Photoshop, but it usually doesn't help. What can I do to make sure that this doesn't keep happening.

To reset prefs, hold command-option-shift while you launch PS. You'll get a confirmation dialogue box to reset the prefs.
Just in case you're not aware, the shortcuts affect layer blend modes, and also tool blend modes. If you have any painting tool selected while you shift-plus or shift-minus, it will change the tool blending mode, and the layer mode will remain as it was. Only with the move tool selected does the layer blend mode change by key command.

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Changing Blend mode in Layer Style

On a Mac is there a shortcut to change the blend mode of the layer inside the Layer Style dialog box?? On a pc you can click on the blend mode menu and then once it's highlighted you can cycle through with arrow keys. I know outside of the Layer Style dialog you can Shift and + or - with the move tool, but the advantage of doing this inside of your layer style dialog is it doens't affect your history. Plus it's something I would like to be able to do with blend modes of any Layer Style effect. Thanks.

Actually no there isnt. The Option Shift Blend mode shortcuts should really work here but don't

Keyboard shortcut blend mode in gradient tool

I switch between screen and mulitply all the time when working on adjustment layer masks.
Cant find shortcut to change the mode within the gradient tool (ony for changing the layer mode)

If the tool that you have selected has a blend mode or opacity control in the Options bar then the normal shortcuts that you use to change the layer will modify the controls of the tool. So, with the Move tool selected, Alt+Shift+S will set the layer to the Screen blend mode but if you have the Gradient tool selected then the gradient will be set to Screen.

Some blending modes are unavailable

I have Photoshop CC 2014 and after I've updated it (a few days ago) I'm now unable to use certain blending modes. I can use 'Normal', 'Dissolve', 'Darken' 'Multiply' and 'Screen' but nothing else. The others are un-clickable. Does anyone know what I've done and can they tell me how to fix it?

Sometimes corrupt preferences can be a common cause.
If you need a quick and dirty way to restore your preferences, here's a way you can do it using a keyboard shortcut on launch:
Windows - CTRL-SHIFT-ALT immediately after you double-click the PS icon.
Macintosh - CMD-SHIFT-OPTION immediately after you double-click the PS icon.

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.

Separate blend mode for each clone source

If each clone source could have it's own blend mode (not to mention its own opacity and hardness) setting it would be more effective. The current blend mode setting in the clone source affects the preview only.
I often have to jump back and forth between Normal, Lighten, and Darken modes, and would like the convenience of clicking between sources already set to what I want.
Thanks

What goes on in the new "Clone Source Panel" is unrelated to Tool Presets oddly. It would be possible, to optionally allow recording of the settings in the Panel, as part of the Clone Tool Presets. But they never bothered to do it. Its as if this feature was designed with no understanding of the importance of Tool Presets at all. This would solve your problem.
The shortcut for Lighten Darken and Normal are Alt > Shift > G, K and N, respectively. This may speed up your work.

Making it easier to cycle through blend modes

Maybe there is a way to do this that I'm missing. Learning or seeing how all the blend modes work is really tedious. You have to trigger the dropdown, go to the blend mode, click it, then repeat all that to try the next blend mode. Wouldn't it be a lot easier if you could just quickly cycle through the blend modes with a slider or the arrow keys? Is there such a thing? Or maybe a screen of blend mode thumbnails, showing all the blends for a particular overlay at once.

Matt Stow has created a command to cycle through the blend modes: http://www.mattstow.com/extensions/Objects/FW_Blend_Modes_1_2.mxp
You might need to right-click the link and Save As to download the .mxp correctly. Once installed, you can set keyboard shortcuts to easily cycle forward and back through the blend modes.

How to cycle thru blend modes within the Layer Style dialog??

Hopefully, we all know you can use the Shift key and + or - to cycle through blend modes in the layers panel, as well as in various tools (like the Gradient tool or the Brush tool). A great way to quickly preview your blending options.
But what about within the Layer Style dialog? This seems to the only situation where this shortcut does not work. Is there another shortcut or workaround that can be used here?
I'm using Photoshop CS2 (on a Mac).
Thanks,
Doug D.

That's a good point.
I guess that Multiply (for Shadow) and Screen (for Glow) are really the "go to" blends for these effects, and including any other options beyond those is all just gravy.
I'm just so addicted to using the Shift +/- shortcut and really like previewing blending changes that way... (But it would create a conflict within Bevel and Emboss, as you suggest.)

Blending mode help please!!!!!

Hi everyone.
I'm now using a mac for indesign and I've found that to preview different blending modes (normal-multiply-screen etc) on an object I have to click on each mode separately. Is there any way you can cycle through them and see the results? - In photoshop you press shift, and then + or - and it will cycle. - This way is far quicker and less fiddly!
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Chris.

That's very strange, I'm nearly sure I got that tip from someone who works with Mac Os?
I find that if I call up the panels with a shortcut key the first field is highlighted, I can then Tab around the panel.
If I click withing the Panel at any stage, then the tab key hides all the panels.
Sorry it doesn't work for you, cycling the blend modes is great, sometimes I know I need Multiply, but I cycle them anyway to see if anything looks better.
Maybe someone who is Mac orientated knows of another way.

Quick way to cycle through blend modes

Greetings all, just a wonder at something that has been on my mind regarding blend modes in motion. Is there any way to cycle through them without having to click singularly on each individual one? An example of what I mean is like Photoshop's keyboard shortcut of (Shift-Opt with + or -). Huge time saver if anyone has information on this.
Cheers - m

Thanks for the reply,
yeah... that's what i've been doing but thought to finally put the question out there thinking that someone may know. Seems strange, would have thought there would be a quicker way which would really help while previewing composites.
Hopefully somebody knows something.
Cheers mate - m

Smart Object and blend mode issue

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.
Thanks
Jeff

Anything to do with soft proofing? Does the new document have the same colour space as the original?

How to change blending mode on multiple layers at the same time

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:
• set the Blending Mode on one Layer
• with that Layer selected create a Style with »Include Layer Blending Options« checked
• select all other Layers that should have that Blending Mode
• click the Style in the Styles Panel

Is there a way to get the result of using multiple blending modes in one object?

Hello,
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.
Thank you for your help in advance.

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

What happened to the 'Shape Mode' shortcut keys on the Pen Tool?

For the longest time I've used both the Shape and Pen Tools for drawing vectors in Photoshop, but with CS6 I noticed a lot of weird behaviours. The one that is really getting to me is the lack of 'Shape Mode' shortcut keys when using the Pen Tool. When on the 'Shape Tool', fo example Cirle or Rectange, you can press the Shift to change the Shape Mode to 'Add', Alt to change it to 'Subtract' or both together to get 'Intersect'. This functionality used to exist on the Pen Tool too, but in CS6 I can't seem to get it working.
A collegue suggested to move over to Illustrator for all my Vector needs, and I know that this a good advice. However the lack of quick/integrated changing between 'Shape Modes' in either product (now) makes drawing things alot slower (for me).
Am I missing something, or is this feature now ommited in Photoshop CS6. If it is does anyone know if its possible to script something to allow this kind of behviour in Photoshop or Illustrator?
cheers,
Jon

The modifier keys "Alt|Opt", "Ctrl|Cmd" and "Shift" work differently depending on the tool being used but the individual keys seem to provide somewhat related functions.
For example the "Shift" key tends to be a constraining key Rectangle tools are constrained to square ellipse tools to Circles. However if there is an Active selection when you hold down the skey when you drag out a new selection it does not reset the current selection instead the new selection is not constrained and is added to the current selection. Shift constrains Transform tool to current aspect ratio, Shift constrains Line tools to vertical, horizontal or 45 degree angles. Pen tool like line tool shift constrains the angle.
The "Alt|Opt" key changes the way tools operate. Transforms are from the center not from the side or corner being dragged. Selection tools like the rectangle and ellipse will cause the intal drag out be from the center however it there is a Active selection dragging out a new selection will be subtracted from the current selection. This key changes the Pen tool from draw mode to anchor point adjusting.
The "Shift" and "Alt|Opt" modifier keys can be used together to have an operation be both constrain and from the center.
The "Ctrl|Cmd" key seems to change the way a tool works on a control anchor point. The Pen Tool changes from Pen Draw mode to Direct Selection tool to facilitate moving the point. Transform can be distorted a single corner point can be moved and distort the rectangle bounding box.
These keys may have other functions I don't know about. Photoshop has many features so many I don't know if any one person know and uses all of them. For the rest of us they seem to be Photoshop hidden secrets.

Hue Blend Mode Confusion

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.
Fill with the color that corresponds to the HSB values (0, 70, 50).
Add a new layer above the existing layer (blend mode Normal).
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).
Change the Blend Mode of the topmost layer to Hue.
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).
Adjust the Hue value in the Properties panel for the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to be -130.
Using the Info panel, the HSB values for the document should read as (230, 70, 50).
Change the Blend Mode for the Hue/Saturation layer to be Hue.
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?
Thanks,
Matt
Photoshop Info:     13.0.1 x64 Extended
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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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