Apple Motion: Blend Modes: Part 1: Lighten & Darken
The Secret Science of Blend Modes revealed!
You can find plenty of tutorials that promise to demystify Blend Modes but all they really do is show you what they look like.
What I’m going to try to do in this series is explain the numbers behind what makes them work.
And I hope that when you start to understand of those numbers you will be able to use Blend Modes more effectively and precisely.
I’m going to start with Lighten & Darken in this tutorial.