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Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

By : Liz Staley
Book Image

Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

By: Liz Staley

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Manga Studio Ex 5 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the Difference mode


How to do it…

This simple recipe will show you how to change a layer mode to the Difference mode:

  1. In the Layer palette, click on the layer to edit (if the Layer palette is not visible, navigate to Window | Layer to open it).

  2. In the top-left corner of the Layer palette, click on the drop-down menu. Next, click on the Difference mode.

How it works...

The actual math of this one is a little hard to explain, but it does look cool! Difference subtracts the colors used in the lower layer from those in the layer being adjusted, and then combines the colors in the lower layer with the absolute value of the difference.

In the preceding example, the blue vertical stripe has turned orange, and the red stripe has become pale blue. Where the blue stripe (now orange) crosses the yellow stripe, it has changed to a darker orange color, and where it crosses the purple stripe, it has changed to a dark violet color. The red stripe (now pale blue) has turned green in the area where it overlaps...