
COLOR BURN: “Burns” the lower layer favoring a more saturated look. MULTIPLY: A glaze that darkens the color of the layer below. So if you have a darken layer on, it tend to reduce/remove the lighter tones on the layer if there are darker tones below it, while darkening the darks.Ĥ. MULTIPLY is more of a glaze, while DARKEN favors the darks on all layers. DARKEN: Now the difference between darken and multiply are a little confusing, so I will explain them together. Reducing opacity makes it dissolve more.ģ. NORMAL: Aw yeah you know all about this layer its just your average layerĢ DISSOLVE: This mode “dissolves” some pixels, allowing the lower layer to show through. Once again, I’m no expert, and these are just my personal definitions, so please try these out for yourself! LONG POST BELOWWWġ. The quickest way to become awesome with layers is to know exactly what each one does.

So I got a lot of messages after my first post asking me to explain layers, so I have put together a cheat sheet of the different layer types.
