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Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer

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From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Advanced

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Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'll introduce you to a couple of advanced blending functions known as This Layer and Underlying Layer. Now, the purpose of the first option, This Layer, is to drop out luminance levels in the active layer. And the purpose of the second option, Underlying Layer, is to force through luminance levels in the Underlying Layers plural. And we'll see what that looks like in just a moment. Now, oftentimes, you hear people refer to these guys as the Blend If sliders because of this loosely associated option that appears above them. Strictly speaking, this is not the title of these sliders. Blend If is an optional and frankly obscure pop-up menu that directs the sliders to a specific color channel, but otherwise, the sliders operate independently, which is why I prefer to think of them as the Luminance Exclusion Sliders because they allow you to exclude certain luminance levels from the blending equation.…

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