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Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode

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Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode

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- Here I'd like to show you a very simple, and very effective treatment where we are using the different blending modes to get this positive and negative effect, placing a letter against a background, and we see the letter defined by the pattern, but offset from the pattern. I'm not sure that's a good way of describing it, but you can see what I mean. This is the starting point, and I'd like to, first of all, just show you how I created the background. Of course, this will work with all sorts of different backgrounds, but my background was created with a combination of filters, starting with a half-tone pattern, and then I applied a wave to that half-tone pattern, and then, using the lens correction filter, I have rotated that wave so that we have this pattern, and I now want to work this pattern into my type object. So I'll click on the layer above to turn on my type. I need to move my type layer beneath my pattern layer,…

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