Linear Burn
Causes darkening to the lower layer in order to reflect the blending layer’s colour; by decreasing brightness.
Lighten
This mode applies only light pixel areas from the top layer onto the bottom – This mode is (perhaps oddly) not used to brighten a picture, but to impose one on another. To brighten an image, you could try using Screen.
Screen
Like projecting 2 or more slides together onto a screen from different sources – Lightness of corresponding pixels is added, giving a brighter image. This can be used to recover images that are too dark, by duplicating the original layer and setting the upper (copy) to screen – then adjust opacity to suit.
Colour Dodge
Similar to Screen, but black on the top layer has no effect on the image, and all other colours will tint those underneath as well as increasing colour saturation and decreasing contrast to match the correct tone. Useful for creating strong results.
Linear Dodge
The same as Colour Dodge, except it matches the colour by increasing brightness.
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