The Blend Mode Slider You Never Used | Photoshop Secrets

Hi there! this is Ashik from creative designer and today we're gonna be talking about a slider which is right there in front of us still we are not using it on blend modes.

let me start with some evidence here we are in photoshop and here we have a subject right and on top of it we have texture. let's turn it on for example you want this texture on the back wall of the subject and you want it to add some punch to the image as well so let's go ahead and choose something like linear light so let's choose linear light but it completely destroys the photo now you might think hey uh let's just decrease the opacity and if we do that well it just doesn't help it just lightens it that's pretty much it let me show you the second evidence and this will make it more clearer to you for example i want to add a warm tone to it right so let's go ahead and create a gradient so click on it and let's choose gradient and we're going to create a gradient this one orange and violet okay and hit okay and let's choose the style to radial i want orange in the middle so i'll just hit reverse and place the orange right here just like the sun and hit okay and try something like color burn well it totally burns it out it looks great but it burns it out if i decrease the opacity it just isn't helping it's just lightening it there has to be something there has to be some control to it and these blend modes have to have some use they cannot be useless one more evidence and this is the final one 

so let's go ahead and add a solid color adjustment and let's choose something like brown color here and we will choose a blend mode called hard mix which we hardly use it's destroying it again and even if i decrease the opacity it's not helping it it's just making it lighter so how can we control the projection of these blend modes now what if i tell you that one slider changes the projection of those blend modes yes it does let's get back to the first example so here we are back in photoshop and linear light makes no sense however if we decrease the fill instead of the opacity have a look at this the projection changes opacity is different opacity just lightens it however the fill fell that is something different have a look now it begins to look something that we can use okay now what we can do is let's increase it to 26 ish select the texture layer click on the mask button and you know the drill take the brush make sure the foreground color is black and just paint in black on the subject and we have the wall with the texture isn't that interesting right let's go to the second example it will make more sense to you have a look at this makes no sense if you decrease the fill see the projection changes if you decrease the opacity nothing but if you decrease the fill projection changes isn't that amazing so for this one we can choose a projection of this sword now what if i tell you there's one more slider that makes it even more effective and you know that slider very well our old friend opacity yes you can use opacity with fill so once you're happy with a fill or with an effect you can also apply opacity to decrease the amount.