- [Narrator] In this movie, we'll take a look at
a few advanced blend mode tricks.
Now for starters, I'm going to get rid of
this blend mode's layer.
But I want you to see that I've gone ahead
and added a little bit of a footnote
that explains exactly what's going on
with my Shift + Plus and Shift + Minus keyboard shortcuts.
Alright. So to get rid of the layer,
I'll just click on the little trashcan icon
at the bottom of the layers panel, and I'll click yes.
Alright. Now let's say for starters
that you want to colorize this placed photograph.
Well, back in chapter 25 of the advanced course,
I showed you how to take a linked image
and assign a sepia tone to it.
But things work a little differently
when you have a clipping mask.
And so I'm going to start things off
by twirling open this image layer right there.
And I'll go ahead and click on that linked image
to select it.
And then I'll press Control + C, Control + F
in order to paste a copy in front.
That would be Command + C, Command + F on the Mac.
And that's just going to allow us to compare
the original image to a few future effects.
Alright. So I'll go ahead and turn that pasted image off,
and then I'll select the original.
And now let's say I want to colorize it
with a shade of green.
Then notice that the fill is selected
up here in the swatches panel.
I'll just go ahead and click on this shade of green
right here in order to fill the image,
and I'm not seeing a darn thing.
And if I were to switch over to the appearance panel,
I wouldn't see any fill or stroke whatsoever.
Turns out, I actually did assign a green fill.
I just assigned it to the clipping mask.
And to see what that looks like,
I'll switch back to the layers panel.
I'll go ahead and scroll down the list here,
and I'll twirl open this clipping group right there.
And you can see that mask is green.
Alright. So I'm going to go ahead and target it
by clicking on a so-called meatball.
And you can now see that I have
a green fill and a black stroke
over here on the far-left side of the control panel.
But the thing is, even though the clipping mask
appears to be in front of the image,
Illustrator actually treats it as if it's in back.
And just to make things more clear,
I'm just going to drag it in back like so.
And you can do that, by the way.
Once you've established a clipping group,
you can move the mask to any location you like
as long as, of course, you don't move it
outside of the group.
That's going to mess things up.
Alright. So I'll go ahead and undo that change.
And now what I want to do is assign a blend mode
to the photographic image.
And so I'll go ahead and target it.
That's just the easiest way to work
here inside the layers panel.
Or, just in the name of full disclosure,
you can go ahead and click on one of these two icons
to switch back-and-forth between the mask
and the contents of the mask.
Or if you loaded D-keys, I gave you a shortcut
that you'll probably never remember.
But it's Control + Shift + Alt + 7.
Or Command + Shift + Option + 7 on the Mac.
And notice that switches me to the clipping mask,
and then back to the photographic image.
Alright. Now bear in mind that
the photo is sitting on top of the mask.
And so to colorize it, you're going to have to
change the blend mode not to color, but to luminosity
in order to produce this effect here.
Alright. Now let's say, I want to bring back
a little bit of the original color.
Well you can only assign one blend mode
to any given object at a time.
And so if you really want to merge
the effects of a couple of different blend modes,
then you need to duplicate the object.
Which I'm going to do right now.
With the image selected I'll go ahead and
press Control + C, Control + F once again.
That's Command + C, Command + F,
to paste a copy of the image inside that clipping mask.
And because this is a linked image,
that's not going to have much of an effect
on the size of this file.
Alright. Now I'm going to change the blend mode
from luminosity to hue so that we can
take advantage of the enhanced saturation values
provided by that green fill.
So notice the difference here.
If I turn on the original photograph right there,
you can see that the saturation drops a little bit
compared to our heightened saturation
that we're seeing now.
And we can make the effect even more prominent
by targeting the clipping mask once again,
and then switching to this very vivid RGB grain.
And you can see that brings out even more colors.
You can also switch to a totally different color,
if you like.
I've got this color rose that I've created in advance here
that makes for a kind of pleasant effect.
Especially if I were to select the top image
in the clipping group right here,
and change its opacity to 50%.
Which I'm going to do, because I have D-keys,
just by tapping the 5 key.
And you can see this gives us
a very different effect.
So this is the original image.
I'll go ahead and press Control + Shift + A.
Or Command + Shift + A on the Mac,
so we're not seeing that gigantic X.
And this is our new color scheme.
And, by the way, because we're doing
all of this work inside the clipping group,
you could go ahead and select the group itself
and assign yet another blend mode.
And so for example, I could go ahead and choose hard light,
at which point I'm combining the effects
of all these blend modes together.
Alright. I'm going to tap the 5 key
to take the opacity value down to 50%.
So I can demonstrate something else,
for those of you who are working with D-keys,
if ever you want to make an object fully opaque,
all you need to do is press Shift + 0, followed by 0.
So Shift + 0 then 0 by itself.
Shift + 0 is going to switch you back to the normal mode,
and then 0 is going to return the opacity to 100%.
Alright. Now turns out I don't really want this fill.
It's not green, actually. It's rose-colored.
It's just that Illustrator hasn't updated things.
To force an update, go ahead and twirl
that clipping group closed,
and then twirl it back open again.
And you'll see it now appears rose.
I don't want that, however.
So I'm just going to go ahead and meatball that item there,
and I'm going to change that fill back to none
so that the model appears more pale pink.
And again, you're not going to see that update
until you twirl that clipping group closed
and then twirl it open once more.
And so at this point, if you want to restore
some more of the original color,
then you could select that top image
and you could press, for example, the 8 key
in order to bring the opacity value up to 80%.
Or you could fade the color by pressing, lets say,
the 3 key to take it down to 30%.
But I like 50%, so I'm just going to tap the 5 key.
Alright. Now I'll just go ahead and twirl this guy closed.
And I want to get rid of that normal item right there.
So I'll just select it here inside the layers panel,
and I'll drop down to the trashcan,
and I'll click on it.
So the idea is if I were to press the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on a Mac,
I would get rid of the selected photograph,
which is not what I want.
Whereas if I click the trashcan, I'll just get rid of
whatever's active inside the layers panel.
Alright. Now just press Control + Shift + A,
or Command + Shift + A on the Mac,
to deselect the image.
And that's how you colorize a placed photograph
inside of a clipping mask,
how you combine the effects of multiple blend modes,
and how you wrap blend modes inside of other blend modes
here inside Illustrator.