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- [Instructor] In this

movie, I'll walk you through



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the various blend mode shortcuts

that are available to you



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in the event that you

loaded my custom d.keys.



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If you didn't load d.keys,



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then you will have no

blend mode shortcuts.



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They just won't exist.



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All right, so I'm going

to go ahead and turn on



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this blend modes layer up here

at the top of the layer stack



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and you can see that I've

created an enlarged version



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of the blend mode popup menu.



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Now in Photoshop, you press

things like shift + alt



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or shift + option + m for multiply,



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shift + alt or shift +

option + s for screen.



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I wish I could have

brought those shortcuts



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over to Illustrator.



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It's just not possible

at the current time.



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So instead, I assigned shift

along with a number key,



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in the order that I

personally assign importance



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to the blend modes, and so for example,



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if I go ahead and click

on the placed photograph



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to select it, I can

press shift along with 1



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in order to apply the multiply mode,



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which really is the most

essential blend mode there is,



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and so again, this is only going

to work if you loaded d.keys.



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If you didn't, pressing shift

+ 1 isn't going to do anything.



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To assign screen, you press shift + 2,



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and so I'll once again press control + h



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or command + h on the Mac

to hide those edges so that



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you can see we end up with

that floating head effect.



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Notice that I've gone ahead

and give the other darkening



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and lightening modes the

slip, because I don't use them



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on anything resembling a regular basis,



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but I do use overlay, which you can apply



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by pressing shift + 3,

as well as soft light,



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which is shift + 4, and hard

light, which is shift + 5.



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Now I'm jumping around

difference because it's really



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a special effect mode and

you're not going to use it



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all that often,



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but every once in a

while, it's very handy,



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whereas hue can be a general purpose mode,



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believe it or not.



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It's just that you

wouldn't want to apply it



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to a placed photograph.



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Instead, you'd apply it for

example to that gradient layer.



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So you know what?



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I'm going to grab that gradient layer



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so that we can see the difference here.



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I'll go ahead and drag it

on top of the image layer,



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I'll unlock it, and then

I'll select the gradient



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by clicking on it, so even

though you can't see it selected,



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it is, and then I want

you to see what happens



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when I press shift + 6.



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In this case, we end up

getting all of the color



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from the gradient, and it's

mixed with the luminance levels



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and the saturation values

of the face, which is why



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we're getting these

wonderfully saturated purples



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here in the very saturated lips.



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Notice how that differs from

color, which I can achieve



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by pressing shift + 7.



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So notice now we have more

uniform saturation values



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consistent with the gradient



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as opposed to the photographic

image in the background.



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So again, this is hue, for

the sake of comparison,



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and this is color.



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So if I really had my

artwork stacked this way,



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with the gradient in the foreground,



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then I could achieve a unique effect



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that I can't otherwise

achieve with the face



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in the foreground by

assigning the hue mode,



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which once again you get

by pressing shift + 6.



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All right, I'm going to go

ahead and grab that gradient



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and throw it in the background

and select the image



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once again by clicking on

it, and then I'll switch it



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to the luminosity mode

by pressing shift + 8.



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So I'm skipping saturation.



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Every once in a while, that mode is useful



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but not very often.



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And then finally, if you want difference,



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then you can press shift + 9,



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and again, I'm saving it for the end



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because it is pretty much

the weirdest of the modes



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and it's more of an

effect mode than anything,



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although once again, I will

have a practical application



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for you in a future movie,

and then, to reinstate normal,



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which is the same as no blend mode at all,



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you press shift + 0, and

that's going to, in our case,



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reinstate the opaque image.



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All right, a couple of

additional keyboard shortcuts



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that I've given you if you loaded d.keys



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are shift + plus and shift + minus,



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and so shift + plus is going

to advance from one blend mode



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to the next.



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However, it's not going

to work from normal



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because normal is the

same as as the blend modes



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being turned off, and so

you're going to have to invoke



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some sort of blend mode, for

example, I'll press shift + 1



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in order to switch to multiply, and now,



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if I press shift + plus,

notice how the blend modes



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are changing over here in

the transparency panel.



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If I press shift + plus,

I'll advance to color burn



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and then to lighten and then to screen



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and then to color dodge and so forth.



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Now, if you want to go back a blend mode,



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you press shift + minus,

and so notice from overlay,



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I'll go back to color

dodge and then screen



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and then lighten, color burn, multiply,



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then back to darken, which

we skipped just a moment ago,



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and then if I press shift + minus again,



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I'm going to wrap around to luminosity.



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So Illustrator is

skipping the normal mode,



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but I can continue pressing

shift + minus if I want to,



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in order to back up that

menu all the way back



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to, for example, difference.



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Now one more thing I

want to show as long as



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this image is open, is that

you can modify the opacity



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of selected text in Illustrator, and so,



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if I was to switch to the type tool,



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which I can get by pressing the t key,



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you'll notice if I double-click

on the word Multiply,



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the opacity is set to 100%,



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but if I double-click on the

word Darken, it's just 33%.



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And so you can adjust the

opacity on a character



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by character basis, but you

can't do so from the keyboard



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even if you loaded d.keys, because notice,



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if I press the zero key to

reinstate an opacity of 100%,



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I'll just replace the word

Darken with the number zero,



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and so to take advantage of

those keyboard shortcuts,



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you've got to have something selected



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with one of the arrow tools,



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and so I've just gone ahead

and clicked on this text



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right here.



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The reason it's not showing

up as selected is because



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I need to press control + h or command + h



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to unhide those edges, at which point,



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I could tap the five

key in order to reduce



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the overall opacity of

this text object to 50%.



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Notice that the relative levels

of opacity remain intact.



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And that's how you take advantage

of my keyboard shortcuts



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for blend modes if and

when you load d.keys.