ABSTRACT
Opacity and Dissolve At 100% opacity the pixels on the top layer obscure the pixels on the layers underneath. As the opacity is reduced the pixels underneath become visible. Th e Dissolve blend mode only works when the opacity of the layer is reduced. Random pixels are made transparent on the layer rather than reducing the transparency of all the pixels. Th e eff ect is very diff erent to the reduced opacity of the ‘Normal’ blend mode and has commercial applications as a transition for fading one image into another, but the eff ect has very limited commercial applications for compositing and photomontage of stills image work.
