Blend Modes
How a layer’s color combines with the composite beneath it.
| Name | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Color | Component | Takes the hue and saturation of this layer and the brightness of what is beneath. | |
| Hue | Component | Takes the hue of this layer and the saturation and brightness of what is beneath. | |
| Luminosity | Component | Takes the brightness of this layer and the hue and saturation of what is beneath. | |
| Saturation | Component | Takes the saturation of this layer and the hue and brightness of what is beneath. | |
| Hard Light | Contrast | Overlay with the layers swapped: the blend color decides the contrast. | |
| Overlay | Contrast | Multiplies dark areas and screens light ones, boosting contrast around mid grey. | |
| Soft Light | Contrast | A gentler Overlay, shading rather than harshly boosting contrast. | |
| Color Burn | Darken | Darkens the base by increasing its contrast toward the blend color. | |
| Darken | Darken | Keeps whichever of the two colors is darker, channel by channel. | |
| Multiply | Darken | Multiplies the two colors, darkening everywhere and keeping white transparent. | |
| Difference | Inversion | Subtracts the darker color from the lighter one, inverting where they differ. | |
| Color Dodge | Lighten | Lightens the base by decreasing its contrast toward the blend color. | |
| Lighten | Lighten | Keeps whichever of the two colors is lighter, channel by channel. | |
| Linear Dodge (Add) | Lighten | Adds the two colors together, blowing out to white quickly. | |
| Screen | Lighten | Inverts, multiplies and inverts back, lightening everywhere and keeping black transparent. | |
| Normal | Normal | Replaces the colors beneath it, scaled by opacity. |
All 16 blend modes in Darkly v0.9.0-0-g5cc6474f.