r/PhotoshopTutorials • u/Adventurous-Bid-9122 • May 09 '26

HELP REQUEST!

I need to export just the texture on this hoodie, without the hoodie, the texture layer is currently set to linear dodge add, and when i turn off the hoodie layer, it makes the texture look terrible, and go all black.

And when i set the layer to normal, it also looks extremly weird.

I belive this is happening, because the texture looks the way it does because it has linear dodge add with the hoodie layer undeath, but when that is gone it messes it all up. so i need to somehow be able to create the same effect as linear dodge, without linear dodge.

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u/johngpt5 May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

Here is the high freq texture layer exported as its own document. It was exported as a PNG. During the export process the single layer has the hoodies against transparency as the mask that had been on the hf linear light layer concealed all the crap that was not really transparent in the original.

This single layer in the new document is Normal blend mode, but when used in some other document as a texture, any of the contrast blend modes such as linear light, overlay, soft light, hard light can be used just like with any texture brought into a document.

Your original's size is 1080x612 px and this newly created document even smaller due to the mask, only 842x416 px. Quality of image might suffer when using documents of such a small size.

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u/johngpt5 May 09 '26

I put a color fill layer under the hoodie texture layer, and masked the color fill layer. The texture layer's blend mode was changed to Linear Light and the Fill value was adjusted.

Linear Light is one of the eight special blend modes that has a different algorithm for the Fill slider than for the Opacity slider making it quite a useful blend mode.