Overlay
Overlay mode mixes colours evenly from layers, very responsive to opacity changes. It works by screening light areas and multiplying dark areas. At a low opacity it is similar to Normal, but with more intense colours. Very useful for adding textures to images.
Soft Light
This lightens and darkens image colours depending on the blend colour. Similar to shining a diffuse spotlight on an image, a very effective way of making tonal adjustments – lower opacity gives a more subtle effect.
Hard Light
Generally not used as Soft Light has a more controllable effect, but this will darken an image if the blend colour is dark, lightens it if it is light and increases contrast.
Vivid Light
Effectively, this mode is like a blanket burn & dodge – burning the dark areas of the blending layer on the lower, and dodging the light areas in the same way. Appearance is like adding different amounts of contrast in the image.
Linear Light
Where the blend image is bright, a dodge is applied the lower layer – similarly, where the blend image is dark, a burn is applied to the lower layer.
Pin Light
This replaces the colors on the lower layer depending on the blending layer’s colours. If the blend color is light, pixels darker than it are replaced, and pixels lighter than the blend color do not change. If the blend color is dark, pixels lighter than it are replaced, and pixels darker than the blend color do not change. Hard one to explain – try it out!
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