Illustrator tutorial: Blending Mode.

Blending is one of the common ways to play with color in Illustrator. You make you work lively and colorful by using this. Before going with the different modes of blending you should know the following three terms.

                Blend color         :               It is color of your selected object.

                Base color           :               It is the color of your selected objects underlying color.

Now we will see the result of different blending mode.

Normal

This mode is selected by default way. With this mode blend and base color are independent. The resulting color will be the one which you have painted.

Darken

The darker color between blend and base color is selected. The lighter portion of the blend color replaced by the darker color but the darker portion not changed.

Multiply

This mode always produce a darker color except multiplication with black produce black and multiplication with white produce no change.

Color Burn

               The resulted color is reflected by darkening the base color with one exception that, color burn with white makes no changes.

Lighten

It is the opposite of Darken mode. The lighter color between blend and base color is selected.The darker portion of the blend color replaced by the lighter color but the lighter color not changed.

Screen

It is the opposite mode of multiply. It multiplies the inverse of blend and base color and always produces a lighter color except screening with black doesn’t change color and with white produce white.

Color Dodge

It is the opposite of color burn. The blend color is reflected by brightening the base color.

Overlay

Either Multiplies or screens depending on the base color.

Soft Light

Either Darkens or lightens depending on the blend color.

Hard LightEither Multiplies or screens depending on the blend color. If blend color is lighter than 50% gray then screened. If greater than 50% then multiplies. Don’t change pure black or white. 

Difference
The blend or base that have the higher brightness will be subtracts from other 

Exclusion
No change by exclusion with black. Similar to difference mode. But the contrast is low. 

Hue
The base color got the luminance and Saturation of the base color and the hue of the blend color.

Saturation

 Got luminance and hue of base color and saturation of blend color

Color

Got luminance of the base color and hue and saturation of blend color

Luminosity

Got hue and saturation of base color and luminance of blend color