{"id":5596,"date":"2011-04-29T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2011-07-12T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:29:59","slug":"how-to-clickmask-blending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/how-to-clickmask-blending\/","title":{"rendered":"Click.Mask Blending {how-to}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/artjocopapak.html\">Art Journal Couture Papers,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/byseaaddon2pak.html\">By the Sea AddOn 2<\/a> (click.mask), <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/or2elpak.html\">Organics 2<\/a><\/span><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello! Wanted to share some ideas for blending click.masks into your digital artwork as there are so many variations and when combining clipping with blending there are a few added considerations. FYI&#8230;see our introductory tutorial on using Click.Masks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=4158\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In my example above, if I would have simply clipped my photo to the original brown Click.Mask without adjusting the blend mode we would have this&#8230;the image and edges are too intense for me. Note: Click on images to enlarge.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>If I adjust the blending mode of the image to Overlay, too much color from the Click.Mask is picked up.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n<p>If I re-color the Click.Mask to white (Ctrl-U, Command U on a Mac, adjust lightness to 100) and set image blend mode to Overlay, again too intense of edges.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n<p>But we&#8217;re almost where I want it now! By experimenting I really like the arrangement when the clipped image is set to Multiply and the white Click.Mask set to Overlay. This allows more luminosity and less intensity for a gentler effect (which I desire for an image that is not the focal point but an added accent).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_6_placeholder\n<p>Keep playing and experimenting, as there are no right answers!<\/p>\n<p>Michelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Journal Couture Papers, By the Sea AddOn 2 (click.mask), Organics 2 Hello! Wanted to share some ideas for blending click.masks into your digital artwork as there are so many variations and when combining clipping with blending there are a few added considerations. FYI&#8230;see our introductory tutorial on using Click.Masks here. In my example above, if I would have simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}