How to Blend Opacities in Adobe Photoshop

If you have more than one layer in your Photoshop document, you can blend those layers together by blending the opacities. The opacity of either layer can be changed and a blending style can be added, as well. Making these changes will blend your objects together to create many different looks.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Photoshop

1. Open Adobe Photoshop. Start a new document. This new document will be your background.

2. Open an existing image from your files. This will create a new layer, which you can view in your Layers palette.

3. Use the Type tool from the toolbox to type some text over the image you have opened. This will create another new layer. You should have three layers now: your background, image and text.

4. Click on your text layer on your Layers palette and change the percentage of the opacity, which is located on the top right of your Layers palette. Lowering the opacity will lighten the text and increasing it will darken the text.

5. Select your image layer and decrease. Then, increase the opacity to see what effect it has on your document.

6. Right-click on your text layer in the Layers palette and go to "Blending Options…" where you can change the opacity of the layer and also select a new blending mode.

7. Click "OK" on the "Blending Options" dialog box and observe the changes to your document.

Tips & Warnings

• If you can't see your Layers palette, go to "Windows" and then "Layers" or press the F7 key on your keyboard.