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How the Pros Use Difference Blending Mode

Let's check out a powerful blending mode that rarely gets featured, but can be harnessed to quickly create a variety of fantastic effects! Grungy overlays, solarized vintage photos, colorful psychedelic design... It's a blending mode found in Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator and more. In this video, we'll take some cues from the pros on how to put it to use!

10 textures used in this tutorial:

Grunge 231 - Distressed edges

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Paper 188 - Distressed and folded

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Paper 250 - Broken copy machine

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Grunge 267 - Currency pattern grunge

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InkPaint 128 - Spray paint fill

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InkPaint 131 - Rolled black ink

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Film 154 - Daguerreotype plate dark

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Grunge 257 - Extreme peeling cracks

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Paper 283 - Detailed swirled ink

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Vintage Photo Gradient Presets - .GRD file

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