After landing in Firefox and WebKit, canvas blend modes are now available in Chrome Canary! Here’s what you need to do check out the feature in your favorite browser: Mozilla Firefox For Firefox, canvas blend modes are enabled by default in the stable version, so there are no prerequisite steps for enabling canvas blend modes. Chrome... Continue reading →
Archive for the Blend Modes Category
Blending features in Canvas
While working on adding CSS blending to the web platform, we noticed that this feature is also missing in Canvas 2D. Since blending is such a commonly used feature in our applications, it is very useful in Canvas as well. Also since Canvas 2D lives so close to the underlying graphics libraries, it becomes easier... Continue reading →
The Graphical Web Experiment
The Quest for the Graphical Web was an experimental presentation we put together to tell the story of how the web is evolving from a graphical perspective. You can watch the full recording of the presentation from the Create the Web event. A web version can be viewed online at thegraphicalweb.com. We’ve also open-sourced the... Continue reading →
Web Platform Roundup
As you can probably tell from the constant posts, we over at the Web Platform team like to talk about our work. After all, we think the contributions we’re making to the web are pretty cool. But we only know we’re making a difference when the community at large starts talking. The following is a... Continue reading →
New blending features in CSS
A couple of months ago, we posted a blog post on bringing blending to the web. Since then, Nikos Andronikos from Canon and I have been busy integrating feedback in the draft spec and we presented it to the CSS working group in May. At Google I/O Vincent Hardy also gave an overview of the capabilities. If... Continue reading →
Bringing blending to the Web
If you’re a user of our design applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator, you know how you can create very cool effects with blend modes. An Amazon search returns many books and a Google search on ‘photoshop blending tutorial’ returns more than 200,000 results. This points to a very widely known and used feature. If... Continue reading →