
Set the name of this duplicated layer Color Burn and press Enter or click OK.ĥ. Like in step 1, right-click on the Soft Light layer and select Duplicate Layer.Ĥ.

Name this duplicated layer Soft Light and press Enter or click OK.ģ. Right-click on the base image and select Duplicate Layer.Ģ. If you want to try this edit with just one click, you can download our pre-recorded action below. This particular combination seems to work very well on soft hazy images. What you should take from this article is that you can use multiple Blending Modes in Photoshop to edit an image very quickly. For example, if you have an image that already has strong contrast in its colours and tones, adding a Soft Light layer might excessively dodge & burn. Using these 3 particular blend modes might not have an amazing effect on all images. However, once we used the Soft Light blending mode, which changed the contrast levels, the Lighten blend mode controlled the contrast to restore some softness. In this example, because the image originally has a soft colour palette, the Lighten blending mode has no effect on the original image on its own.

Pixels darker than the blend color are replaced, and pixels lighter than the blend color do not change. Looks at the color information in each channel and selects the base or blend color-whichever is lighter-as the result color.

