Videos tagged with layer mode

It’s toning time again. Toning is done do black and white images to increase their “volume”, the perceived contrast range. We only have 256 values on the screen, so a bit of colour can be good. In #39 I had shown how to make a Duotone or Tritone out of a monochrome image. And then Paul Weller Bou showed in his Blog an easier way to do this. It’s working, but why? To answ...

For reducing the green tint of the image I add a layer filled with a bright magenta (white minus a bit green) and set the layer mode to “multiply”. This reduces the green in the image proportional to the amount of green in each pixel. The amount of the effect can be adjusted by changing the opacity of the layer or changing the colour of the layer. Then I add a bit of blue with a lay...