Hi folks,
i have almost 6 years of Flame experience and have never used or even tried these blending modes because I don’t understand them.
Is there anyone who can tell me what they do or what they are for? Or is there an old tutorial where they are explained.
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Hi,
Those are binary blending modes, they basically convert decimal to 1 or 0 do the binary operation and then convert it back to decimals.
Unfortunately, I do not think we have good documentation on those.
However, I found online a few of those explained pretty well:
Francis.
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cool thanks for the quick reply i’ll take a look right now!
Nuke has good documentation on the blending modes and the math behind it. Flame modes a generally the same, but names might differ a bit.
You could always ask Senor Blanco.
Such a legend.
On fxguide there was a great post with a working demo using black and white circles (or something). It was ace. I have tried many times using way back machine etc to find it. Posting here in case it jogs anyone’s memory.
Yes! I remember that. It was with gradients and color bars afaik. I have also searched in vain to find it.
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One of my favorite books on the planet. A compositing Bible of sorts. Has a chapter that breaks down blend mode math for the most common operations. I try to get every junior I meet to read it but I don’t think anyone wants to read books anymore in the age of YouTube. But it’s a timeless treasure trove.
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