Photoshop Blend Modes For Games

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i’ve spent so much time trying to recreate photoshop’s overlay blend mode in my game engine and this video helped me understand it better. thanks for showing the math!

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I've been a digital artist since 2010, but this is the first time I've seen how the back end of these blend modes work. This makes SO MUCH more sense now.

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4:56 I believe Adobe has made these formulas public. The same blend modes are used by PDF, and they had to make them public when PDF became an ISO standard.

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I really appreciate the Monogatari style editing!

[@JuanmaGuerrero]

I came here looking for a way to apply blending modes in Unity... didn't get that information, but I got another valuable information as well. So thanks for that!

[@JanbluTheDerg]

(I draw using Krita rather than Photoshop, but blend modes is basically identical between each) You know... this is really helpful for my art stuff, which I didn't really expect when clicking on this video. Now I actually have an idea of what each blend mode is doing! Thank you Acerola!

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Incredible work, simple formulas

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[@foodforfaeries]

2:28 I learned this while switching an image from rgb to cmyk (to preview for printing) in Krita only to find my blending layers all suddenly worked differently

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Great video! I have been looking for this info ever since started working with shaders (I do 2D art), but never knew how to search it or where hehe. New sub. Thanks for sharing 😊!

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Furry Cereal Mascot Bara Art included?

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Text at 1:43 "Sort of like gamma correction, huh, curious!!".

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[@tonyhakston536]

5:30 yeah, color burn works better for this kind of thing.

[@BrendanFromBC]

*I LOVE multiply for painting shadows,* anything else- I just mash on my up/down arrow keys until the blend mode seems right. 👌

[@Acerola_t]

I'm a whore for vivid light

[@BrendanFromBC]

@@Acerola_t most of my Ps work is editing for product photography and 3D renders, and I love messing around with blend modes on curves, hue/sat, and gradients layers. Almost every project ends up being done a different way, but it always feels like there's a better way to do it haha. Vivid light is my favourite for when I'm lazy and using layer opacities to make adjustments instead of properly using adjustment parameters

[@socialgutbrain7774]

One blend mode I use a lot is Grain Merge, and I'm pretty sure it's only in Krita

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Do you plan to make a video about optimizing codes?

[@Acerola_t]

I mean it's kinda hard to make a vid about that alone, instead I try to talk about it when applicable. For this video, there's no applicable optimizing to be done.

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@@Acerola_t Okay. Btw is models we bought from asset store are optimized or should we do some optimizing too? Cuz I am a programmer so I buy weapons and enemies than code them into the game I want it to become.

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[@Acerola_t]

I could try yeah, it is my favorite game and stuff. Probably more likely to do a persona 5 vid since it has all the modern technical art.

[@chibbychaps6445]

@@Acerola_t that would also be very cool!

[@b4ttlemast0r]

It would be better if you had actually shown each of the blend modes with two different images, blending it with itself only gives you an idea of the side effects like lighten and darken and doesn't really show how the blend modes look in the context they'd actually be used in.

[@Acerola_t]

Blending the image with itself is generally the context it would actually be used in, so I don't know what you mean.

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When you realize that everything's just math

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I have stopped using that intro but that's good to know thanks

[@ramongonzalezfernandez8904]

3:03 QUADRATIC NOT EXPONENTIAL HOW DARE YOU. WHEN α = β, THE EQUATION BECOMES 1-(1-α)(1-β) = 1-(1-α-β+αβ) = 1-1+α+β-αβ = α+β-αβ = 2α-α^2 OR -α^2+2α WHICH IS QUADRATIC

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