hello and welcome to another in NBK
design video tutorial I'm Anika one of
the creative team members from a NBK
design the products you will see in this
video we received free of charge as part
of my free creative team worker and
bikini sign today we talk about the
blend if you'll find this option in
blending options and I'm pretty sure
most of you haven't already tried this
option and if you double click on your
layer here the layer style windows opens
and here you can see the blend if and
you have this two sliders and we will
talk about this sliders and how they
affect your photo first I want to
explain you the basics I make a new
layer and I will apply a gradient from
black to white
and now I work on this layer here also
if I want to change the photo layer for
example I work on this layer double
click to open my layer style and in the
blending options go to blend if we only
talked about the gray and Colonel you
can also choose the red green or blue
channel but in this video we'll let this
on grave so now you have two sliders
this layer and underlying layer and this
layer of course is the layer we are at
the moment and the unblind lair is layer
and under the layer which is selected so
if I drag the slider from the black here
to the right to the more bright area and
you have to understand this whole thing
based is based on brightness
and the brightest and the darkest parts
in photos so black and white this means
it means if I drag this slider from this
layer which means my gradient to the
right to the more Brighton area the dark
area becomes invisible okay and of
course if I drag the slider to the dark
area here the white areas becomes
invisible
okay now the underlying layer if I drag
the slider from my black area to the
brighter areas
this means the black areas from my
underlying layer which is my photo here
becomes visible so if I drag it now you
can see the dark areas from my photo
becomes visible okay and now we have
this little arrow or whatever you can
split this to make your selection you're
blending smoother and to do this click
hold and hold alt on your keyboard and
split this slider and now you can make
it smoother and you can play with the
settings here I'm the same of course
with my white slider if I drag it to the
darker areas in the areas from from my
underlying layer my photo becomes the
brighter part becomes visible okay again
hold on your keyboard and click with
your mouse in this arrow and split it
and you can play
the slightest so this is the basic how
this blend if works so now let's make
this with a photo so if I put this photo
on top of the other and now double click
here on your layer if you want to blend
the dark areas of this layer which means
this city and you want to make the black
areas the dark areas visible invisible
sorry invisible and drag the slider to
the right apart and you can see the dark
parts of your current layer where your
work becomes invisible and also if you
drag the white slider then the white
parts of your current photo layer
becomes invisible and again you can
split this sliders old and you can make
it smaller
okay and now if you want the darker
areas of your underlying layer which is
again the photo with the woman and the
child becomes visible drag this slider
from dark to bright and the underlying
dark parts of the photo becomes visible
and also if you want to make the
brighter areas of your underlying layer
becomes visible then drag this slider
and again alt and split this to make it
all smooth okay so now
we can do something more we have for
example a sky with clouds and the
contrast is not very good and you can
see the clouds so good and what we can
do here now is we make a new layer then
we click on our foreground color and we
have our color picker open and now we
pick a color from the sky and now you
can play with the saturation with the
use the brightness so change this all
but there are no rules do what you think
would look looks good and go to your
brush tool and now we choose just
general soft brush and we change the
flow to around 20 or 30% and also I
change the opacity to around 70 but it's
totally up to you
and now just paint in your photo and you
can change the saturation and the
brightness
and again photographer example and just
paint over your photo and now we double
click on our layer and we want to bring
the clouds back
this means clouds are right we need to
drag the white slider from our
underlying layer that the white becomes
visible and you can see now the clouds
come back Bundy but it's very harsh so
we need to split it old and click in
your arrow here and split the slider and
now you can play with the sliders until
you are happy and click OK
and now you can see the difference you
have more contrast the clouds are clear
and if you are not happy with some parts
of your painting just select your layer
and go to your eraser your and you have
already your soft brush and now you can
erase over those area where you think
it's too dark or too light or whatever
and you can erase this and now before
and after okay
another example let's try to blend two
photos together for example I dragged
this on top of this photo and
double-click again on your layer and now
I want the black parts of my underlying
layer becomes visible so I need to drag
the slider from my underlying layer from
the black to them brighter parts and you
can see the dark parts of my underlying
layer becomes visible again hold on your
keyboard and you can make it smoother or
you want to bring back the white areas
again old and you can now make
and I will delete this you can make for
example solid background let's make it
black and if I have a black solid on top
I need to bring back the white areas of
my underlying layer which means I need
to drag the slider from the white to the
black to bring back the white parts of
my underlying layer I can hold on your
keyboard and split this and now you have
the white parts of your photo all and
you can make a solid background and you
can make it white and now if you double
click on your color fill here and you
want to bring back the black part of
your underlying layer so grab the slider
here and black parts comes with Abell
again we split the slider and you get
some nice effect here this looks nice
okay
and now we can also work on a paper I
have this solid paper from the winter
blues collection and now we write a text
for example in let's make it white and I
will copy this because I want to show
you something
controller come on J and I will hide the
copy for the moment so I want to blend
this word into my background I want that
the texture of the wood comes through my
word art here and I can try this with
the blend blending modes for example
soft light yes I can see the texture
from the watch a little bit stronger
overlay yes but the it's very soft the
robot is very soft I can see that the
texture but it's too too soft and too
multiply no doesn't work screen no I
have so I can't find proper blending
mode for the effect I want to have and
this is why we double click on our layer
and now I want that blacks from the
woods the black parts becomes visible
through my word art this means I need to
drag the slider from my underlying layer
from the wood paper to the brighter
parts that texture becomes visible
through my word art and again old and
you need to split the slider and now I
have exactly what I want to have that
the structure shines through my word odd
and you can play with the sliders here
it's up to you and now you can see the
difference this is for example overlay
and this is with the blend if okay and
now we can also try this with our
scrapbook papers and artsy bits or
whatever I will grab this paper from the
organ garden collection because it has a
lot of colors and dark and bright areas
and I think it's nice to blend this and
I grab a solid paper
and I want to blend the stupid papers
together with blend if drag it on top
and now double click and let's say I
want to bring back the black parts of my
underlying layer from this pattern paper
through the white paper this means I
need to drag the slider from the
underlying layer do that right apart so
the black parts of the underlying layer
becomes visible again split your slider
to make it smooth and now you can see
you get a totally different paper okay
again try and play with sliders and
again we want to bring back the white
parts I split my slider and now you have
the white parts of your underlying layer
visible and we can also try to blend and
artsy bits same rules we work on this
layer now because we want to make parts
of the art if it's unreasonable from our
current layer for example let's make the
white parts unvisible and you can see
you can drag the slider until you have
only the cage and the butterfly again
you can split it to make it smooth
or you can make the black parts of this
part see bits
unvisible let's try this with the white
paper how this looks again the white
slider you can see how you can split
this you can see how you can change the
looking of this a lot see bits until you
have only the contour of the cage or the
butterfly and you can do so much things
with this plant if again split it to
make it smooth yes that's the blend if
and I hope you get a little inspiration
what you can do with this blend if and I
think there are so much possibilities
and one last try the black and white for
example if you want to make the white
parts invisible
you can drag the slider as much until
you have only the silhouette here and
totally blended photo and don't forget
you can bring back some details of a
photo so I hope you enjoyed the video
and you learned something new and try it
and I would like to see some of your
results and joining that artology group
at Facebook see you soon bye
