Blending modes in Illustrator

[Doug A Roberts]

hello all,

for the benefit of my team at work and for the sake of my own curiosity, I had a go at writing a description of how blending modes work in RGB Illustrator documents. i had only a vague idea beforehand of what each one did, so it's entirely likely there are some errors in it, and i would be very happy if anyone would be so kind as to point them out to me. if not, perhaps you might find it useful!

most of the sources i used were Photoshop-centric:

Photoshop Blend Modes Explained - Photo Blog Stop

Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Premium Astrophotography - DeepSkyColors.com

Blend modes - Wikipedia

I'm not much of a mathematical head so i got lost in the more complex equations and relied on experimentation to get a few cemented in my brain. Anyway here it is:

Adobe Creative Cloud

[intelligent_neighborsFA21]

Hello,

@AdobePress has published a small book where you will find a detailed description about each blending mode. But once you understand what there do, I can unsure you that the pleasure is so great.

Here is a link to the book:

Hidden Power of Blend Modes in Adobe Photoshop, The

This is the base to understand blending between to objects, layers or groups.

There are divided into groups, here an illustration that clarifies it:

I hope it will be enough information. Reminder what they do as a main task. And the use will be easy. Good luck

[Doug A Roberts]

are you the author? perhaps you could critique what I've written?

[intelligent_neighborsFA21]

Hello @Doogofakkad

You've done a great job explaining it a mathematical way, but most users will use it the practical way. So my only critic is:

Show more creative samples of blends.

A Practical way to use blending modes.

In which way every blend can affect your artwork or make it better, the easy way. Work smart with blending modes.

Go on.

Let me know, If you need some help.

Patrick.