How to show the blend modes without having a dropdown control option ?

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You can always just set up multiple blends with preselected blend modes and then hook them up with the switch to use only a selection of blend modes.

What you do is add as many blend components as you need blends, then output them to a switch. Let's say that in your filter you want to give an option for [Normal], [Multiply] or [Overlay]. What you do is put 3 blend nodes in the editor. Each gets the same foreground and background to blend, but each blend node is set to a different blend (One [Normal], one [Multiply] and one [Overlay]). Now connect the 3 nodes to a switch, and put an int slider to the switch with max value of 3.

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Can you give then names to this preselect blend modes ?

No. The user will stil see numbers. But instead of playing with 19 blend modes which most give unwanted results, you have only as many as you need - 3 in the example above.
You use this method when you only have 3 or more blend modes available for the user.

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Can this be done with checkboxes ? Please, How could I do it to select the blend modes with checkboxes ?

Yes and no. You can use a checkbox to select between only 2 blend modes.
Let's say that in your filter you want to give a choice of EITHER [Multiply] OR [Overlay]. What you do is put a blend node and connect a Checkbox component to it's blend mode. In the checkbox node you have an option to use remapping. when you select remapping, you will see next to the blend mode input another little box. Click it and you can select the ON number and the OFF number. In this example, choose 3 and 10 as on\off modes, and you get [Multiply]\[Overlay].
You use this method when you only have 2 blend modes available for the user.

You can never have too many blend modes. Never know when you're gonna need to use one of them, but for the most part, those five will do the trick.

Yep, you can use the 5 blend modes with a switch trick I explained and have just those numbered 1-5 in your filter, and in the description you can explain which one is what.

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Sphinx. wrote: use several blends (one for each mode), and hook them up to the switch

As Sphinx has not been able to answer to this, please, does somebody else could think or know a possible way to make this in a good way ?

Thanks very much

FF BLEND MODES COMPONENT - PRINT THIS TO HAVE IT NEAR THE MONITOR



Meanwhile I will print and paste this table near my monitor so I can easily make a reference to what the numbers are related to name of the blend mode so I do not go crazy when trying to make a filter

I have been making a new filter that includes Blend Modes, and I feel that is not at the same to have to this list shown here below printed at the side of the monitor than having the actual name of the blend modes in the settings panel instead of only numbers.



Not everyone remembers what the equivalent number of the wanted Blend Mode, and also not everybody surely has this list above printed near his monitor to see it, so it would be a very good to have the names of the blend modes as it happens already in other software, instead of just only numbers.

Hello again, I made already a filter to in someway be able to show the names of blend modes on the settings pannel and choose them by name and not with a slider with numbers, but I feel that this maybe could be done in a different way, or optimized in some way and make it cleaner and ask if anyone may be a different idea or this is really the only way to do it?

I mean if you could have maybe a better idea on how to choose selectively what blend modes you want to include on a filter. Because it could happen that you may want o include only 4 blend modes 1, 5, 8 and 15, and there is no way to remap or do this with a slider

Blend modes with names on settings filter

A Possible alternative to a drop down menu

Seeing the image above with the blend mode list, I may think that instead of having a drop down menu, it could open a floating panel with this list where you could use a checbox (or whatever) to choose the name mode you want