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In this movie we're going to take a look at the Blending Modes that are going to be available to us with our different Paint Tools. So I'm going to go ahead and go to the File Menu here and I'm going to create a new image. I'm going to change the size here to 800 by 600 and I'm going to go ahead and make sure that my background color is going to be white. So I'll fill it with white and then I'll click OK. OK. Now I'm going to go ahead and add in a new layer and I'm going to just call this Paint and I want to fill it with transparency and I'm going to grab my Paintbrush Tool here and if I take the look at the Mode, it's set to Normal. So if I come in here with my graphics tablet and draw a couple lines, it should be more or less these regular lines that you've seen before. So it's possible using these different blending modes to paint in different pixel colors to mix in with the pixels that are currently on this layer with these blending modes. So any of the options that you had seen in the previous video on Blending Modes for Layers will actually apply here but it applies it to just this layer. So if you're wanting to blend colors together on the same layer, you can do that with your Blending Modes with your Paint Tools. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to change my color. Let me go ahead and change my color here so that I'll be working with red. And I do want to take a moment to show you that it is possible to keep your colors open all the time. Let me go ahead and go to the Windows Menu and go to Dockable Dialogs and inside of that you have Colors and if you click on Colors, it's going to show you this foreground background color and it's dockable so I can click and grab that and dock it. So here we have it. Now I can quickly select the colors that I need without having to go through my dialogs. So let me go ahead and paint in with red. I'm going to increase my brush size and right now it's set to Normal. So then I'll change this so that I'll be Screening and I'll change my color to a lighter yellow color and whenever I paint, it's only really going to show up on the areas that were dark. So that's one way that you can utilize this ability to use your blending modes. Now, as I said, you're going to be able to use any of the blending modes that were available to you in the Layer Blending Mode. However, with these Paint Tools you're going to have a couple more that weren't available. So I'm going to go back into my Blending Mode here and I'm going to jump up towards the top and as we can see here, we've got Behind and Color Erase. And we also have a Dissolve and I want to take a look at that in here because it's kind of, kind of interesting and I'll set my default colors and I'll just click and drag here and it looks kind of normal as I'm dragging but the edges look a little bit jagged. But whenever I have my opacity set kind of low, it's a little bit more obvious that we're looking at kind of this dissolved paintbrush. And sometimes that's a really nice effect that you might want to remember because it's going to kind of make it look like it might be an actual paintbrush of some type, maybe a sponge or something. So I've made this kind of globular mess on the canvas here. I'm going to change my mode here to Behind. Now, what Behind is going to do is it's going to paint behind all of the pixels on this layer. Now, the way that it does this is it looks at transparency and it's only going to paint into the transparent areas. So if I select a green color here and start painting in, what's going to happen is it's going to paint in behind the pixels. So what I'll see here is that it's looking at areas of transparency and deciding whether or not it can put any color there. So that's going to be pretty handy for whenever we need to add in a background color behind an image on a layer to help it stand out. Now, the last option here for our Brush Tools is the Color Erase. What Color Erase is going to do is it's going to look at our foreground color and it's going to erase it from the image. So here I'm erasing just the green but if I swap out that green for black and go over this again, it erases black. Now, don't forget we can also adjust our opacity on some of this so that if I want to erase, say, my red and I drop my opacity down, it's going to erase some of the red but not all of it. So if I want to erase more of the red, I just move my finger away from the mouse so I'm not dragging anymore or take my graphics pen off the tablet and then I go back over it. So these different modes are going to be available to us on any of the different tools that use the brush as a basis. So you'll end up seeing that on your Pencil Tool as well as your Airbrush Tool and some of your other tools. So that concludes this look at our different Blending Modes available to us with our Paint Tools.