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Blend Modes Finally Make Sense: A Practical Breakdown for People Who've Been Guessing
I have a confession. For the first two years of my freelance career, I used blend modes almost entirely by feel. I’d click through the dropdown like I was spinning a prize wheel, stop when something looked interesting, and call it a day. It worked, sort of, the way guessing works. Sometimes brilliant, mostly embarrassing in hindsight. The thing nobody told me early on is that blend modes aren’t random. They’re organized into logical groups, and once you understand the groups, the whole system clicks into place.