Took me 4 hours to fix a simple layer blend mode issue

Spent an entire afternoon trying to figure out why my shadows looked muddy in Procreate. Turns out I had the layer set to 'multiply' instead of 'normal' the whole time. Has anyone else spent way too long on something that dumb?

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max_hernandez271mo ago

Makes you wonder how many other things we're blindly messing up without knowing it.

logan6581mo ago

Yeah that's a bit dramatic honestly, most things work fine.

ross.lily1mo ago

Oh man, I've been there! For me the game changer was actually duplicating my layer and testing the blend mode on the copy first. That way I could see what it actually did without messing up my original work. Also I started naming my layers right away instead of leaving them as "Layer 1" and "Layer 2" because I kept losing track of what was what. Once I got into that habit my whole workflow got way smoother.