STOP guessing what (the rest) of the 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

[@zdspider6778]

Why'd you stop making these? 😕 These are great!

[@oomegator]

Superb stuff! I've been and still do struggle wrapping my mind around Substance Designer, and this is super helpful! Hoping for a glorious comeback, your videos are greatly appreciated!

[@freshmaker4o]

Fantastic! Exactly what I was looking for, a thorough breakdown of one of the core concepts in SD, thanks a lot!

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@jakelongartist]

It was finally time for me to sit down and understand these, watched the previous video before this one and it's been super helpful! Gonna watch a bunch of your other great videos now! Good job Johnny, you've got a sub from me! 🤓

[@nickbrady9880]

Your videos are fantastic dude. Everything in here has seriously helped me tighten up so many little things in my materials that felt amateur-ish. Thank you!!

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

That's wonderful! Glad you're finding them helpful.

[@Soulsphere001]

It's nice to understand that Overlay is similar to Add Sub but using Multiply and Screen, and that will definitely help me know when best to use it. I never mentioned it, but I do sometimes swap between blend modes to see what they look like. Hopefully I won't need to do that anymore, or at least I hope those days are numbered. Thank you again, Johnny.

[@mlv617]

Awesome. Huge help, thank you!!

[@Derabooo]

Thank you for the great explanation!

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

of course!

[@titanmoruma5834]

best tutorial on substance designer ever!

[@Santisc4d]

These videos are gold! Thank you so much! I recently learned a use case for the blend mode divide. If you for example have a tile generator, you can duplicate it and plug them both in to a divide, change the color variation and you will have an ID map.

[@wythegao9812]

great job， please make more

[@laverbellstring1759]

Fantastic Video!!!! :D :D :D

[@harrysanders818]

It's a good sign when your brain hurts during watching a tutorial :D The one thing that I took away from this (among multiple other great aha moments and deepening refreshers, taking notes and building the graph alongside) is that Min/Max can essentially act like Boolean operations "Add" and "Subtract", with the grey scale image content determining how what gets "fused" or "cut out", just like working with 3d forms in a modeling program. To use it that way, this seems to need to have your input inverted when jumping from one mode to the other, cause otherwise it acts more like an "Intersection".

[@Lyco0n]

Where is the video on histograms :D? Hope you will have some time to do it in future, awesome and easy to understand videos

[@nicolaizafra9705]

Thank you sir, very helpful and informative!

[@abhiraaid]

Thanks a bunch for making these videos, this'll take a while to sink in.....🙂

[@xff3959]

sir we want more tutorial about about substance designer I am formout substance designer I am from Bangladesh

[@user-vc5ps4jb6t]

great video,could you make one to explain how to fix weird intersections when splattering a shape ?

[@JohnnyHalcyon3D]

Yup thats on the list - some of it comes down to setup on the generators and some after the blends

[@user-vc5ps4jb6t]

@@JohnnyHalcyon3D thank you so much !Looking forward to it 🌱

[@Choochufkhan]

do u have any plans for doing "creating vfx in substance designer" like using the substance player to create some sprites n stuff

[@KristjanLaane]

does AddSub exist in photoshop (by another name)?