Tools

Blend-Mode Explorer

Blend a color layer over an image with any of the 16 CSS mix-blend-mode values, compare them at a glance, and copy the result. The classic way to tint photos and build duotones.

CSS

About blend modes

Blend modes control how a layer's pixels combine with whatever is behind them: the same Multiply, Screen and Overlay you know from Photoshop. mix-blend-mode blends an element with the elements below it; background-blend-mode blends an element's own background layers together.

Reach for them to tint a photo to your brand color (a color layer set to multiply or overlay), to build duotones (pair with the filters playground), or to knock text out of an image with difference. Performance is cheap; just remember a blended element needs something behind it to react to.