About blend ranges
Blend ranges allow you to specify how tonal values of a layer blend with the layer(s) below. You can set the range of the tonal values affected and can set the range to have any level of opacity (from opaque to transparent).
The blend range of the selected layer and the underlying layer(s) is controlled via the spline graphs in Layer Options, accessed by tapping More.
You can change the blend range for individual colour channels by changing the setting above the spline graphs.
Blend Ranges
Source: Darks reduced
Source: Lights reduced
Destination: Darks through
Destination: Lights through
The effect of Blend Ranges graphs modified on the Source layer (sky and birds image) and the Underlying layer (seascape).
The two graphs present on the Blend Ranges are Source and Destination. The first controls how the current layer worked on blends tonally with the layers beneath it, whereas the second determines how the underlying layers blend through the current one.
About blend gamma and antialiasing (RGB documents only)
Layer Options allow you to adjust the blend Gamma of the selected layer. This gives you the option of designing using a linear-RGB colour space (1.0), regular sRGB-blending (2.2) or any gamma value up to 3.0. In other words, it gives you full control over how the tones of semi-transparent or antialiased edged objects interact with colours underneath.
Antialiasing is the reduction of the jagged appearance of lines on a pixel grid. Antialiasing is achieved by the addition of semi-transparent pixels along the line to smooth the transition from the line's edge to background objects. This area of transition is sometimes referred to as the antialiasing ramp or antialiasing coverage.
Layer Options allow you to adjust the antialiasing ramp (coverage) of the selected layer, as well as control how (and if) antialiasing is inherited or set independently of other layers. For improved workflow, child layers nested hierarchically in a parent layer can inherent the parent layer's antialiasing setting automatically but can be forced to apply antialiasing or ignore it.
To change blend ranges: