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5 - Top-Transforms-Lower

In the Top-Transforms-Lower blending modes:

• The blending layer compares its pixels to the corresponding pixels in the base layer.

• Then, the blending layer changes the pixels in the base layer according to certain rules.

Let's explain this category of blending modes with an analogy.

Let's say you've got a "Simon layer."

The layer is "singing" a mode called Normal.

The singing is so-so.

The Simon layer needs some tweaking.

So, you add a Garfunkle layer.

Garfunkle is singing a mode called Saturation.

When the two modes, saturation and normal, harmonize (blend), the sound (look) is better.

Let's look at one of the blending modes in this category, the Multiply blending mode, in detail.