'Darken' Blend Mode: Five Examples of How to Use It (with Affinity Photo)

[@darelhess2323]

Very informative and practical. THANKS!

[@tomaswilde5481]

As usual, very interesting, useful, easy to learn and apply. Thank you much !

[@philipzwick]

One of your best. Quick illustrations that cover a lot fast, enhance our learning, and provide ideas as to what to do to an image.

[@anneburke2405]

Great fun Dave, thank you for those.

[@TheYesnoyesnoyesno]

eye opening stuff for me... thanks!

[@phlotographer]

So many things to learn. Back 60+ years ago, I knew typing would be valuable in University and that text is something we all typed 100's of times along with "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog". No letters on the keyboard and even now I can't tell somewhere where to find a particular key but my fingers sure know where to locate them. Thanks as usual. Oh, hope you got my email.

[@inaffinityforaffinityphoto3220]

I learned to touch-type when taught by a secretary in the 80s. Most productivity increase of any education. Sorry - missed the email - could you resend, please? changingminds.org/and/contact.htm

[@WeiChong]

Excellent complement to your Darken Tutorial. I encourage you to provide this type of section to all of your tutorials on Blend Modes. It make the tutorial quite rounded. Thanks!

[@vinr]

Excellent stuff as always

[@JeffStudley]

I stumbled upon the beauty of using unsharp mask with lighten and darken blend modes, as mentioned here. The problem I was having in sharpening were halos. Now using two layers of unsharp mask, one using darken and the other lighten and the occasional high pass in overlay I have a lot more control over sharpening without the effect of halos. May seem a little extreme but I am using an older Rebel T3, too.

[@TV-tq5ed]

Cool...my new favorite blend mode, Many Thanks!

[@paulfredfield]

Hmmm, I can foresee some interesting things in the future!