- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll walk you through
the various blend mode shortcuts that are available to you
in the event that you loaded my custom d.keys.
If you didn't load d.keys,
then you will have no blend mode shortcuts.
They just won't exist.
All right, so I'm going to go ahead and turn on
this blend modes layer up here at the top of the layer stack
and you can see that I've created an enlarged version
of the blend mode popup menu.
Now in Photoshop, you press things like shift + alt
or shift + option + m for multiply,
shift + alt or shift + option + s for screen.
I wish I could have brought those shortcuts
over to Illustrator.
It's just not possible at the current time.
So instead, I assigned shift along with a number key,
in the order that I personally assign importance
to the blend modes, and so for example,
if I go ahead and click on the placed photograph
to select it, I can press shift along with 1
in order to apply the multiply mode,
which really is the most essential blend mode there is,
and so again, this is only going to work if you loaded d.keys.
If you didn't, pressing shift + 1 isn't going to do anything.
To assign screen, you press shift + 2,
and so I'll once again press control + h
or command + h on the Mac to hide those edges so that
you can see we end up with that floating head effect.
Notice that I've gone ahead and give the other darkening
and lightening modes the slip, because I don't use them
on anything resembling a regular basis,
but I do use overlay, which you can apply
by pressing shift + 3, as well as soft light,
which is shift + 4, and hard light, which is shift + 5.
Now I'm jumping around difference because it's really
a special effect mode and you're not going to use it
all that often,
but every once in a while, it's very handy,
whereas hue can be a general purpose mode,
believe it or not.
It's just that you wouldn't want to apply it
to a placed photograph.
Instead, you'd apply it for example to that gradient layer.
So you know what?
I'm going to grab that gradient layer
so that we can see the difference here.
I'll go ahead and drag it on top of the image layer,
I'll unlock it, and then I'll select the gradient
by clicking on it, so even though you can't see it selected,
it is, and then I want you to see what happens
when I press shift + 6.
In this case, we end up getting all of the color
from the gradient, and it's mixed with the luminance levels
and the saturation values of the face, which is why
we're getting these wonderfully saturated purples
here in the very saturated lips.
Notice how that differs from color, which I can achieve
by pressing shift + 7.
So notice now we have more uniform saturation values
consistent with the gradient
as opposed to the photographic image in the background.
So again, this is hue, for the sake of comparison,
and this is color.
So if I really had my artwork stacked this way,
with the gradient in the foreground,
then I could achieve a unique effect
that I can't otherwise achieve with the face
in the foreground by assigning the hue mode,
which once again you get by pressing shift + 6.
All right, I'm going to go ahead and grab that gradient
and throw it in the background and select the image
once again by clicking on it, and then I'll switch it
to the luminosity mode by pressing shift + 8.
So I'm skipping saturation.
Every once in a while, that mode is useful
but not very often.
And then finally, if you want difference,
then you can press shift + 9,
and again, I'm saving it for the end
because it is pretty much the weirdest of the modes
and it's more of an effect mode than anything,
although once again, I will have a practical application
for you in a future movie, and then, to reinstate normal,
which is the same as no blend mode at all,
you press shift + 0, and that's going to, in our case,
reinstate the opaque image.
All right, a couple of additional keyboard shortcuts
that I've given you if you loaded d.keys
are shift + plus and shift + minus,
and so shift + plus is going to advance from one blend mode
to the next.
However, it's not going to work from normal
because normal is the same as as the blend modes
being turned off, and so you're going to have to invoke
some sort of blend mode, for example, I'll press shift + 1
in order to switch to multiply, and now,
if I press shift + plus, notice how the blend modes
are changing over here in the transparency panel.
If I press shift + plus, I'll advance to color burn
and then to lighten and then to screen
and then to color dodge and so forth.
Now, if you want to go back a blend mode,
you press shift + minus, and so notice from overlay,
I'll go back to color dodge and then screen
and then lighten, color burn, multiply,
then back to darken, which we skipped just a moment ago,
and then if I press shift + minus again,
I'm going to wrap around to luminosity.
So Illustrator is skipping the normal mode,
but I can continue pressing shift + minus if I want to,
in order to back up that menu all the way back
to, for example, difference.
Now one more thing I want to show as long as
this image is open, is that you can modify the opacity
of selected text in Illustrator, and so,
if I was to switch to the type tool,
which I can get by pressing the t key,
you'll notice if I double-click on the word Multiply,
the opacity is set to 100%,
but if I double-click on the word Darken, it's just 33%.
And so you can adjust the opacity on a character
by character basis, but you can't do so from the keyboard
even if you loaded d.keys, because notice,
if I press the zero key to reinstate an opacity of 100%,
I'll just replace the word Darken with the number zero,
and so to take advantage of those keyboard shortcuts,
you've got to have something selected
with one of the arrow tools,
and so I've just gone ahead and clicked on this text
right here.
The reason it's not showing up as selected is because
I need to press control + h or command + h
to unhide those edges, at which point,
I could tap the five key in order to reduce
the overall opacity of this text object to 50%.
Notice that the relative levels of opacity remain intact.
And that's how you take advantage of my keyboard shortcuts
for blend modes if and when you load d.keys.