Multiply blending mode to PNG

Question

I have a layer in Photoshop with multiply on, when I however save to web it loses the blending mode.

How can I keep multiply or achieve the same effect in another way?

Solution 1

Here is one thing you can do.

1. Copy the image you want to multiply. (CtrlA and CtrlC)

2. Make a new 'Black' color layer and click 'add mask'.

3. alt-click the Mask icon, so that you can enter to mask edit mode.

4. Paste your 'multiply' images in the mask (b/w) , and then invert it.

5. You will have a black layer with your multiply material masked.

6. You can adjust opacity of that layer to find best looking image. (30~40%?)

7. If you save it as transparent PNG file, you are done.

It is not perfectly same with 'multiplied image' , it will be somewhat dimmed, not that vivid enough, but it is quite useful when you need normal images or textures to apply on top of something.

Solution 2

Blending modes are not supported by PNG. All you get is alpha transparency. If you want something blended with the background, blend it in photoshop first, and save the flattened image.

Solution 3

If i understand correctly, you want to create png to multiply color with html background, to drop some shadow on html background. There are mixing of two worlds involved, that is why you cant blend image world with html world.

Anything inside png looks ok and blends and multiplies across layers, and then when you put it into web it doesnt look ok.

One way is to blend it onto flat color same as html background (i am sure that's not acceptable or the case) or flatten all blended layers together. You can't blend 50% black + multiply on green html background to get dark green but you will always get 50% grey over green which is a dull grey green. Multiplyed 50% black turns into normal transparent 50% black if it is over transparent background so as any other blended color in any other mode. Web browser isn't a live environment to support graphic blending modes as found in photoshop.

Solution 4

There's a simple solution for this:

1. Choose the layer
2. Click fx in the layers tab
3. Choose "Blending Options"
4. Start dragging "This layer"'s right-most arrow to the left

Solution 5

If you drag down the 'fill opacity' bar in Advanced Settings, it will keep the transparency effect through the entire .png.

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Comments

[user8783]

I'm not sure if that's what the original question was asking, but that's exactly what I was searching for when I came to this question.

[Joseph Marikle]

This answer is exactly what I was looking for too. Very nice method!

[nodws]

Anyone looking to create Highlight and Shadow pngs THIS is the method