


More than real estate is has the power to. The new great function (a new type of exposure fusion, to be exact) is called Fusion / Real Estate. However, Hard Mix (like its distant cousin Linear Light) is controlled by FILL, primarily, and Opacity secondarily. To put it simple, I really love the latest version 5.0, as it ventured towards new possibilities for those of us who just want the HDR to be a tool for capturing reality, not creating surreal worlds. What it does is break your image down into eight colors and only eight colors. When you first apply the HArd Mix blend mode you will see a considerable amount of Black, White, and maybe some variation of speckled Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Magenta, or Cyan. The Hard Mix Blend Mode is in the Contrast Blend Mode group and derives it’s power from the Linear Light Blend Mode, consider it a distant cousin. The award-winning software used by the most recognized HDR photographers around the globe. That is because the Hard Mix Blend Mode, when applied “as-is” is trash, it’s horrible at best.

I could tell you all day long that the Hard Mix Blend Mode is the most fantastic Blend Mode in Photoshop, but you’d have to see it to believe it.
