Stop GUESSING what Blend Modes do!

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Blend modes are funny - they really are the main backbone of a graph and one of the primary ways to manipulate greyscale values. Even though this is the case they are reaaaly misunderstood in my experience! Even among people who have used these tools for ages! It's very quick to learn them all and there is a ton of value in NOT guessing

[@austin2890]

i was prepared to go my whole life guessing. thanks for this

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

hahahah - It happens alot! Whenever you find yourself on auto-pilot picking things it pays to understand why!

[@aester235]

I FEEL CALLED OUT 😭

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

hahahaha

[@lucasgarcezxyz]

I'm getting back to designer and this is really helpful, appreciate it! Loved the HEALTH tshirt also. Gradient Map tutorial sometime?🤔

[@AdrianoFerreira-nb8cd]

hahaha love the intros, this is super helpful. You're a great teacher!!

[@Derabooo]

great explanations. Can't wait for the other modes!

[@conner101howard]

For the engagement

[@Choochufkhan]

tysm for explaining this, cant wait for the next part

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Should be later in the week

[@BradfordSmith3D]

Copy might be easy to skip over on the surface, but it's nuance is really important to understand, particularly with LDR total height range preservation which is a common use case in Designer. Looking at: result = (a * opacity) + (b * (1 - opacity)) You can see that of course it's multiplicative, but at least by a constant which is easier to compensate for if you need to track it downstream. But you are effectively taking a fixed height volume, and compressing two inputs into that fixed range. Avoiding multiplication in height creation, or reserving it for special cases rather, is great advice.

[@chadanefrancis2099]

Insanely good explanations

[@TheRulerofEarth4444]

I've been trying to switch to open source software and freeware (though your videos make me miss Substance), so I really appreciate videos like this that tackle the content on a conceptual level so I can apply it while using Material Maker as well.

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Come back to the light!

[@Mitismagnus]

Yes!!!! Finally i will understand this. Gold videos from you as always!!

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Appreciate it :)

[@AmitMechlovitz]

Gold

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Thanks Amit, hope all is well with everything!

[@issacdhan]

Got this cleared after a long time.

[@Helgrind44]

This video title is calling me out haha

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

"I am in the video and do not like it"

[@3DIZED]

Haha! Loved the dentis analogy!

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Cant build a house using only a hammer!

[@mr.j7899]

awesome video man!

[@jayantbhatt007]

Information 💯 and video editing skills 😂

[@Soulsphere001]

I tend to use overlay and soft light for adding little details to a height map, probably partly because I've seen those used a lot in Photoshop, though I don't know how they work. Those two and divide are the blending modes I'm least familiar with. Add Sub is one I'm less familiar with, too, though I think it adds foreground values higher than 0.5, subtracts foreground values less than 0.5, and doesn't change the background value when the foreground value is 0.5. Something like that anyway. EDIT: Switch is the one mode I'm completely unfamiliar with, though it appears to work similarly to Copy.

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

That's correct on add/sub - I'm unsure how soft light works in designer, It's always a bit of a grab bag how it's implemented, I believe in photoshop it's overlay but the foregroung is squared up first. I good way to think about it in Designer is as an overlay with a lighter touch - As mentioned in the video, I prefer it for color blending.

[@mr.j7899]

When's the next tutorial man??

[@MortalVildhjart]

Great video!, Great shirt as well!

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Unbelievably based band

[@untitled_exr]

I've been thinking that the worst thing I'm doing is making old paint on surfaces. Maybe a tutorial? (in particular the moment when, at the edges of cracks, the paint is like.. bending from the surface)

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

This is actually on the list/

[@secondfavorite]

Hey I don't scroll through all of 'em, I can usually get it in 2 or 3.... oh, wait, fine I'll watch.

[@UnseenBlade]

You haven't linked the graph in the description :)

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

great catch! Will fix

[@harrysanders818]

27:58 - Didn't you mean "Times one" here? Probably just me being confused, but I think times one would deliver the least change (no change), right?

[@harrysanders818]

Ah I think I got it, you're going from the pyramid shape, which's borders are closer to zero, and hence don't lift up the clouds as much.

[@harrysanders818]

I should have just continued watching, you explained it the next second :P - Really exciting content!

[@MrEbawu]

I’m assuming the principle is the same in painter?

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

exact same!

[@nicolaizafra9705]

Can't deny that i'm guilty about scrolling down between blend modes to see which option would fit best 😂

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

we have all been there brother it gets better

[@harrysanders818]

I've watched some Javier Perez tuts, where he's doing it every blend :D

[@jurjani_vii]

​@@harrysanders818You beat me to it 😂! The whole industry is guilty then

[@deskabogatov456]

I love u

[@zeus3005]

Johnny! If you were a blending mode, which would you be and why? 🤔 Also very helpful video!

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Add, since I'm always extra and cranking it much past 1

[@paulshack]

Ahahahaha that opening had me cracking up

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

It's gotta be the best sound we've come up with

[@coffeediction]

0:14 - 0:36 -.-'