March - month of blending - posting thread

03/06/2008 07:15:38 PM · #51

Day 6: Armageddon

This was the first of my images I did for the difference blending mode, and is my least favourite.

03/07/2008 11:27:15 AM · #52

Week Two is for Darkening. See original post for modes to try and the definitions

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03/07/2008 12:58:56 PM · #53

I spent quite a bit of time experimenting with different texture overlays and difference and exclusion when I have time I will post my findings

03/07/2008 07:32:11 PM · #54

From a Penn State visit a few weeks ago. The Nittany Lion overlooking one of the entrances to a part of the campus.

There was a good bit of snow on the ground and it was a cloudy day. So the snow in front of the statue let the image of the road through and the white sky let the image of the statue through.

Edit: dumb me, I didn't put in some of the important detains. The blending mode was Darken. The lion was sized to fit above the entrance way and sort of frame it. As the snow lost out in the blending it didn't matter that the two images did not overlap perfectly.

Original images:

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03/07/2008 11:57:22 PM · #55

Day 7: Stop!

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03/08/2008 11:24:31 AM · #56

Anyone started week 2 stuff yet? (Darken) The definitions for all blending modes in this group are posted in the OP.

If anyone has any insight that will extend the definitions, feel free to post.

I may have some stuff to post this afternoon.

PS. If you still have week 1 stuff you want to share do so today then let's move on to darkening modes.

Have fun. ;o)

ETA: I think what could be interesting is to use the same images from the difference/exclusion exercise for this one to see how they behave differently. Just a thought.

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03/08/2008 09:37:12 PM · #57

Hmmmm ....

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

03/08/2008 11:33:55 PM · #58

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

Darken - looks at the two colors, the color already there, and the one youâ��re painting with, and chooses the darker one, whichever it is. No blending. Whichever is darker wins. Which of the two is used will vary across the image according to which is darker at each spot.

It's done on a per channel basis, though.

03/08/2008 11:56:40 PM · #59

Day 8: But it looks so nice in there!

03/09/2008 03:10:11 AM · #60

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

Anyone started week 2 stuff yet? (Darken) The definitions for all blending modes in this group are posted in the OP.

If anyone has any insight that will extend the definitions, feel free to post.

I may have some stuff to post this afternoon.

PS. If you still have week 1 stuff you want to share do so today then let's move on to darkening modes.

Have fun. ;o)

ETA: I think what could be interesting is to use the same images from the difference/exclusion exercise for this one to see how they behave differently. Just a thought.

Oh well saves me time on uploading experiemnts and composing my thoughts will move on to darkening :)

03/09/2008 12:21:25 PM · #61

I just had to revisit the cow with darken.

... and something new

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Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Nikon

03/09/2008 03:55:34 PM · #62

Back to working on my barn/farm image. This time I duplicated the layer and then used the Multiply blend mode. That did not turn out so well. So I created a mask to delete the barn. silos, ground, the background trees, and parts of some of the larger trees. So the main effect was to darken the trees along the horizon, the branches of the large trees and the sky.

JMart

Nikon D80

03/09/2008 09:41:50 PM · #63

Sorry to drop in unannounced. I just ran across this thread, tried some of the ideas here, and thought I might share...

Here are two original images I just used:

Blending in difference mode created this:

& a more subtle effect w/ only the Red channel on

That's a fun feature. I look forward to seeing what else comes out of this forum.

03/09/2008 10:10:01 PM · #64

Day 9: Cross at Sunset

An image taken tonight at a Catholic School near my house. I was out looking for some nice images at sunset, but didn't get much besides this.

03/10/2008 12:21:08 AM · #65

Day 10: Plains of Abraham

Not the most original use of the multiply blending mode, but I normally would have used soft light, so I suppose I'm still out of my "comfort zone".

Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Nikon

03/10/2008 06:57:40 PM · #66

Linear Burn

I finally came up with something that seem to work with the linear burn blending mode. This one and the color burn I have had some trouble getting a good composite. Everything ends up just too dark. So for this one I used the church as the background layer and the bamboo as the overlay. The blending mode was linear burn. Then I did a rather extreme application of curves to both image to lighten them. I then adjusted the opacity down to about 70 or 80% to get the final image.

The originals:

and

and the composite image:

JMart

Nikon D80

03/11/2008 04:22:40 PM · #67

I'm going to do some cross threading between this and the March Macro challenge.
This was done with the Color Burn blending mode. Details are with the picture...

03/11/2008 05:25:24 PM · #68

Ok I'm going to use the same image for all my experiments with blending modes. My main to areas of interest will be adding texture overlays and improving the original image.

Original

03/11/2008 05:46:56 PM · #69

Oops wasnt meant to post that post so soon oh well will split my experiemnts into parts!

Ok what I have done here is just duplicate layer

then darken @ 100%

interestingly there seems to be absolutely no effect!

multiply @ 100%

I can see the advantge of using multiply on an image to darken it would like to know more about when is a good time to use multiply

Colour burn @ 100%

I actually like this effect but would probably adjust opacity xcolur burn seems to add brightness as well as darken!

Linear burn @100%

not sure when I would use this once again adjusting opacity would be helpful

then resized and saved for web.
I only did these at 100% to get good examples of the differences. If you have a mouse wheel its inteesting to scroll through the modes the differences become very clear!

I am now of to do the same thing but with textures!

03/11/2008 06:54:08 PM · #70

Wanted to find out how different types of textures responded to different blendimg modes
Editing details on on images ,these are not necessarily how I would finish these images but experiemnts with blending modes.
Darken was the hardest one of all to find a texture that worked well here. In the end it seemed that textures that had dark tones but scratchiness to them worked ok. Apart from the one I used nixters window texture works ok as well. I would really like to know when was a good time to use darken!

Multiply nice rough tactile textures seem to work with multiply

Colour burn semed to respond well to smooth evenish textures

Linear burn worked very well with dirty window type textures

03/12/2008 08:37:04 PM · #71

Thanks for posting all your experiments. I'm finding it difficult to find images to use with darken but I'm thinking of trying it with masked off areas like highlights to see what affect it has.

03/15/2008 11:16:56 AM · #72

Sorry people. This week just crept up on me.

Anyone still working on the darkening modes or can we move on to the lightening ones?

Definitions for the lightening modes will be posted shortly.

If anyone has any insights that will help in how any of the blending modes covered so far work, go ahead and post. Even if it's just your own observations.

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03/15/2008 12:00:15 PM · #73

The cow has returned yet again. I think it works quite well with Lighten.

03/15/2008 01:40:04 PM · #74

I worked again with the image of the church and the bamboo that I used for the darken modes. One of the comments I got there was to lower the opacity and go for a watermark effect. I played around with it and everything still came out too dark. It just did not work. So I thought I would try it with the lightening modes. This came out, in my mind, a bit better.

I used the church as the background. Then used the image of the bamboo twice for the overlay. I found that I could not get a balance in how the lighten mode worked on the darker and lighter portions of the image. So I set up complementary layer masks for each of the two bamboo layers. For the sidewalk and the darker areas of the building I used an opacity of 20% and on the rest of the image I used an opacity of 75%. I also did a curves adjustment to the background layer to get an overall darker image. The lightened overlays lightened the entire image a bit much.