How to Use the Hard Mix Blending Mode

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Someone in the Nucly Facebook group recently asked how to recreate a custom starburst halftone effect in Photoshop and I thought this would be a great opportunity to highlight the power of the Hard Mix blending mode. One of the lesser used blend modes, Hard Mix is actually very powerful and in this tutorial, we’ll see how we can leverage that power. We’ll also touch on other blending tricks in Photoshop.

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