Subtitles of the Movie

If you take a look over here in our Layers Palette at this ghosted out or inactive menu, we have something called Composite Method. But for those of you guys who also use Photoshop, you may know this as Blend Modes. What this will do is give you the ability to take the pixel information on a layer above another layer and then calculate them mathematically. So don't run away, I know I scared some people with that math word and I scare myself all the time when I talk about that. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to draw on a different Layer three rectangles with different colors. I'll make one white, and I'll do anther one and fill it with blue and I'll draw another one down here and I'll fill it in with green. OK so let me get my Paint Bucket. Now we have three separate colors on the same Layer. I'll go ahead and hide it and show you. Now when it says default and we change it to something like Colorize, notice how the color information blends with the information on the layer underneath it. And when I choose Reverse Out, we get this really cool x-ray feeling. And because I did three different rectangles, we even have something that looks like a comic strip or a graphic novel with the different Panels. You can also do something called Magic Combine, which is very interesting. The Layer underneath will pretty much take up some of the qualities of the pixels above it and add it into itself. We also have something called Pseudo Color which is very interesting as well; get a very interesting take on the colors as they're absorbed into this one. We can also choose something called Multiply. Now I'm going to show you something very quickly. I'm going to go back to default. In Photoshop and in Painter a lot of comic strip artists like to use Multiply because it will take white pixels and completely disregard them. So light pixels go away and dark pixels stay. So to demonstrate this I'll go to Multiply now and notice that the white cube goes away. I'll go back to default and with my brush I'm going to paint on the white cube very quickly to show you. Once again, I'll go back to Multiply. The green stays and the white pixels go away. The opposite of that is Screen. Screen gets rid of the darker pixels and keeps the lightest ones. You also have something called Overlay which is like taking a transparent sheet of paper or a film sheet and overlaying the colors on top of the other layer. You also have the ability to work with Soft Light and Hard Light, pretty much saturating and desaturating those colors. You also have Darken which do exactly as advertised and lighten and difference, which will give you the opposite color that you have in here. So where we had white, we have black. Where we have green, we have purple and so on. So as you can see there are quite a few different Blend Modes or Composite Methods that you can apply to your different layers. The best way to learn these is to experiment. So I Highly suggest that you open up your favorite image, draw something on another layer and just experiment and just see what you can come up with.