Another great use for the Multiply blend mode is for dropping out the white areas of an image and making them transparent, as you can see below.
Which blend mode is useful for dropping out the darkest areas?
Darken. The Darken Blending Mode looks at the luminance values in each of the RGB channels and selects either the base color or blend color depending on which is darker. Simply put, this Blending Mode does not blend pixels, it only compares the base and blend colors, and it keeps the darkest of the two.
What are the 3 most used blend modes?
The 10 most useful Photoshop blending modes
- Darken. The 'Darken' blending mode only blends tones and colours where the original layer is darker. ...
- Soft Light. ...
- Lighten. ...
- Multiply. ...
- Screen. ...
- Overlay. ...
- Difference. ...
- Luminosity.