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scrolling down to get to the other panels, they’re in a row of horizontal icons near the top right—just hover your cursor over each icon to find what you’re
looking for. Anyway, you make your Develop module edits here, then click OK, and you’re instantly back in regular Photoshop to pick up right where you
left off. Easy enough.

Layer Blend Modes: Intro to Layer Blend Modes
Layer blend modes open up a whole new world of effects and blending between layers, and they are super-easy to use (which is why they are so popular).
Basically, they determine how a layer interacts with the layers below it. When a layer is set to the default Normal blend mode, it doesn’t interact with the
layers below—anything on this layer covers up whatever is below it. It’s a solid thing. However, if you change a layer’s blend mode from Normal to
anything else, now it can affect what’s below it, making it darker, lighter, more contrasty, artsy, weird, all kinds of looks—it just depends on which one you
choose. Here, I’m going to introduce you to a few of the most popular ones:
Step One:
When you have a background image, with another layer above it, when the layer blend mode for the top layer is set to Normal (as it is here), that layer
covers whatever is on the layer below—you can’t see through it. It doesn’t blend with the image below, it simply covers it. By changing the blend mode,
the image on top can blend in with the image below. You choose blend modes from the pop-up menu above the word “Lock” in the Layers panel. Click-
and-hold on it and 27 different blend modes appear. The most popular are: Multiply, which darkens the top image as it blends with the image(s) below;
Screen does the opposite—it brightens as it blends; Soft Light blends and adds contrast; and Overlay blends with more contrast.

Step Two:
Here, I chose one that’s not as popular: Hard Light. Why? I thought it looked best. How did I know? I quickly tried all 27. How? By pressing Shift-+ (plus