Advanced Blending Mode

The Advanced Blending mode pop-up from within the Layers palette is described below with functions for how to access it. A list of the controls in the pop-up can be found in the table below.

What It Does

The Advanced Blending mode pop-up lets you adjust the blended colors before the blending mode is applied to the selected layers and layered shaders. These modes can be applied to each layer independently, regardless of whether it already has other adjustments applied to it.

How to Access It

• Button | Layers Palette >

• Button | Shaders Palette > Shader Layers tab>

• Button | Mask Stack >

• Button | Adjustment Stack >

Advanced Blending Mode Fields

Control	Type	What it does	Notes
Mode	dropdown	Select the blend mode that you want to modify with the advanced settings.
Amount	text field, slider	Adjusts the blend mode amount.
Amount Enabled	dropdown	Enable or Disable the ability to change the blend mode amount.	If Amount has already been modified and Amount Enabled is set to Disable, then the amount is not reset to the default. It is locked to the amount entered when Disable was set.
Blending	dropdown	Choose whether to modify the blending mode with Basic or Advanced settings. If you select Basic, the Component field and the curve editor fields cannot be modified.
Component	dropdown	Select either the Grayscale, Red, Green, Blue, or Luminance components to adjust when modifying the curve editors and applying the blend mode.
This Layer	curve editor	Maps between input and output values for the selected layer.	Drag to move points on the graph. Add points by clicking on the curve. Edit a point by right-clicking it.
Below layer	curve editor	Maps between input and output values for the layer stack below the selected layer.	Drag to move points on the graph. Add points by clicking on the curve. Edit a point by right-clicking it.
Swizzle Red	dropdown	Select the component - R, G, B, A, One, or Zero - that is output from the Red color component. This allows you to re-arrange the RGBA values.	By default, the Red component is set to output red color values.
Swizzle Green	dropdown	Select the component - R, G, B, A, One, or Zero - that is output from the Green color component. This allows you to re-arrange the RGBA values.	By default, the Green component is set to output green color values.
Swizzle Blue	dropdown	Select the component - R, G, B, A, One, or Zero - that is output from the Blue color component. This allows you to re-arrange the RGBA values.	By default, the Blue component is set to output blue color values.
Swizzle Alpha	dropdown	Select the component - R, G, B, A, One, or Zero - that is output from the Alpha component. This allows you to re-arrange the RGBA values.	By default, the Alpha component is set to output alpha values.