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Just spent 4 hours fixing a simple layer blending issue in Photoshop
I was working on a digital portrait for the showcase this weekend and couldn't figure out why the shadows looked all muddy. Turns out I had the layer set to 'multiply' instead of 'normal' and it took me digging through 20 tutorial videos to spot it. Has anyone else had a simple setting waste hours of their time like that?
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dianaanderson11d ago
Hang on a sec, multiply isn't meant for "emergency use" - it's actually a solid blending mode for adding shadows and depth if you know what you're doing. Most of the time people just stack it without adjusting the opacity or using a mask, which is where the muddiness comes from. The real trick is keeping it at like 20-30% and using a soft brush so you don't lose all your detail.
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