This is a great technical explainer on the blend modes, but it makes me want to go deeper: Where did the canonical 18 blending algorithms that we take for granted today originate? Was it a brainstorming session between John and Thomas Knoll in 1992? A paper by Ed Catmull in 1979? Did Adobe invent them, or merely popularize them?
Somewhere, there’s an oral history of blending modes waiting to be told, and I can’t wait to read it.
Somewhere, there’s an oral history of blending modes waiting to be told, and I can’t wait to read it.