ImageBlend Laboratory
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Learning Path Content & Exercises
Tour of the Blending Modes
The most used blending modes are explained and demonstrated with a gray tablet and other examples to show in detail the behavior and possible use cases for each one.
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ImageBlend Lab: Lighten and Darken
Published 2025-05-15 This lesson on the ImageBlend Script begins with a brief tour of the tool and demonstrates the lighten and darken blending modes.
ImageBlend Laboratory: Conditional Blending (A/B Comp)
Published 2025-07-24 This brief lesson complements the previous on the use of conditional blending modes with ImageBlend. (This is actually a lesson I created…
ImageBlend Lab: Darken and Multiply
Published 2025-05-12 This video continues with a demonstration of Darken and also shows the Multiply blending mode.
ImageBlend Lab: Darker/Lighter Colors and Linear Burn
Published 2025-05-12 This video describes how perceptual color spaces affect the meaning of darker and lighter colors. Linear burn is also shown.
ImageBlend Lab: Screen Blending Mode
Published 2025-05-18 The Screen Blending mode is the most important method for managing starless and stars-only (extracted) images. There are several (powerful) implications of…
ImageBlend Lab: LRGB
Published 2025-05-30 In this video you will learn how to create the best possible LRGB image by adjusting each of the L and RGB…
ImageBlend Lab: Add and Colorize a Third Color to an (NB) Image
Published 2025-06-06 This video demonstrates the Adam Block technique of taking a dual band image (of any sort) and adding a third band- giving…
ImageBlend Lab: Add Narrowband data into an RGB Image
Published 2025-06-06 Please don’t get too excited- this is topic that is often requested. However, the variation shown here substitutes NB data into bright…
ImageBlend Laboratory: High Pass Filter with Overlay
Published 2025-08-15 This lesson shows a classic sharpening and contrast enhancing technique of applying a highpass filter followed by blending with overlay. As this…
ImageBlend Laboratory: Masks
Published 2025-08-19 This brief lesson covers how masks work when using ImageBlend. More general concepts about masks are covered in the Techniques course.
NGC 300: Narrowband Blending Ha/LRGB (I)
Published 2025-12-01 This lesson is the first of two parts that demonstrates the incorporation of narrowband images into a color (LRGB in this case)…
NGC 300: Narrowband Blending Ha/LRGB (II)
Published 2025-12-01 This is the second lesson of a two-part demonstration on blending narrowband data into a color image (LRGB in this case). This…
ImageBlend: Photo Filter Effect
Published 2025-12-01 This is the second lesson of a two-part demonstration on blending narrowband data into a color image (LRGB in this case). This…
ImageBlend Script: Softlight and Replace with a Mask
Published 2024-02-01 This video shows a demonstration of using the ImageBlend script with the SoftLight and Replace blending modes with a Mask.
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Master the ImageBlend Script to combine astrophotography data with precision. Explore powerful blending modes, fine-tune color and structure, and gain full creative control over your images in ways that were not previously possible. Many of the techniques known to users of other imaging editing software are now available through the gateway that ImageBlend provides. This script supports masks and is interactive so you can see the results in real time.
