Adobe ADBCD17648MC Manuale Utente

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Painting

You can choose any of the following blending modes from the Mode menu in the options bar:

Edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color. This is the default mode. (Normal mode is called 

Threshold when you’re working with an image in bitmap or indexed-color mode.) 

Edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color. However, the result color is a random replacement of 

the pixels with the base color or the blend color, depending on the opacity at any pixel location. This mode works best 
with the brush tool and a large brush.

Edits or paints only on the transparent part of a layer. This mode works only on layers with Lock Transparency 

deselected, and is analogous to painting on the back of transparent areas on a sheet of glass.

Edits or paints each pixel and makes it transparent. You must be on a layer with Lock Transparency deselected 

in the Layers panel to use this mode. 

Looks at the color information in each channel and selects the base or blend color—whichever is darker—as 

the result color. Pixels lighter than the blend color are replaced, and pixels darker than the blend color do not change.

Looks at the color information in each channel and multiplies the base color by the blend color. The result 

color is always a darker color. Multiplying any color by black produces black. Multiplying any color by white leaves 
the color unchanged. When you’re painting with a color other than black or white, successive strokes with a painting 
tool produce progressively darker colors. The effect is similar to drawing on the image with multiple felt-tipped pens. 

Looks at the color information in each channel and darkens the base color to reflect the blend color. 

Blending with white produces no change.

Looks at the color information in each channel and darkens the base color to reflect the blend color by 

decreasing the brightness. Blending with white produces no change.

Compares the total of all channel values for the blend and base color and displays the lower value color. 

Darker Color does not produce a third color, which can result from the Darken blend, because it chooses the lowest 
channel values from both the base and the blend color to create the result color.