CHAPTER 9 ADVANCED DRAWING 341 Layer Modes (Web design templates)
CHAPTER 9 ADVANCED DRAWING 341 Layer Modes By now, you should be very comfortable with adding layers to an image. Generally, when you put one layer on top of another, the top layer is what you see. Lower layers only show through when the upper layer is at least partially transparent. But layers can be combined in many other ways, using layer modes. You ll find them in the Mode menu in the Layers dialog. GIMP will use a layer s mode to determine how to combine each pixel from the top layer with the pixel in the same location in the layer below. Layer modes are also called blending modes, because they specify how to blend the colors in a layer with the colors in the layer below it. Note The Mode drop-down menu in the drawing tool options, which you ve already seen in Chapter 4, works basically the same way that layer modes do. It also adds a few special modes that are only used for drawing tools. Confusing? Let s look at an example. Figure 9-9 shows a red swirl on a white background. Of course, the swirl is in a separate layer from the background. Figure 9-9. A red swirl layer on a white background layer
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