Blend modes: how can I mix in a texture without it showing on a white background?

[Horseflesh]

I'm trying to do something that I am sure is simple, but I can't figure it out. I appreciate any pointers you can give me!

I have used a bitmap texture and the Erase layer mode to add light speckles to this vector shape:

But, what I would really like to do is use this distressed texture to not erase, but mix colors within the vector shape. For example in this blood splatter design, I could recolor the texture to be a darker or lighter red color, and then blend it into the smear vector shape. 

However, when I play with the blending modes, any mode that modifies the color in the red streak object also makes the texture visible on the white background. 

How can I set up layers and blending modes so that a colored texture will mix with the vector shapes and not show on the white background? 

 

[thomaso]

I might misunderstand you but it looks like one of this two options could work:

[Horseflesh]

That does work, thank you. I was just hoping to find a way to accomplish something similar without having to duplicate the vector object. That may be the only way to get the the color mixing effect I want, though. 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Horseflesh said:

without having to duplicate the vector object

Juts in case: My examples shown above do not require any duplicated object (both ways work non-destructive). The copies in my sample result from 1x on the left to show the two elements as separate objects whereas the copies on the right are one for each solution.

[Horseflesh]

Ah thanks I misunderstood. I did end up getting the effect I wanted, but it required using a copy of the vector object which is super inconvenient. I'll try your method. 

 

[firstdefence]

If you are mixing vectors and raster/pixel image and using blend modes you will ultimately end up with a raster/pixel product. That being said, why not simply nest the texture layer inside the vector object?

The mid texture that was created using the Ink Spatter brush is actually white and was recoloured using the colour overlay fx.

blood texture.afphoto

[Horseflesh]

11 hours ago, firstdefence said:

The mid texture that was created using the Ink Spatter brush is actually white and was recoloured using the colour overlay fx.

Ah, I did not try Color Overlay FX. I tried the Recolor layer adjustment along with nesting as you showed and that didn't work... I'll give your method a try!

See, I knew there had to be a better way... There always is.

[firstdefence]

In the initial try I'm not sure you had the spatter nested as I cannot seem to replicate that effect, either with vector and a nested pixel texture or a pixel shape and a pixel texture nested.

This is an example of a pixel shape with nested pixel textures with a recolour adjustment layer applied to the nested pixel texture, if you don't do that the recolour adjustment will recolour the pixel shape and the nested textures.

Nested textures.afphoto

[Horseflesh]

I didn't have the spatter texture nested the first time. I was fixated on the blend modes and hoping to find something that worked kind of like Erase with a mask. (That doesn't exist.)

I did try nesting (and a recolor layer) based on an earlier idea in the thread but for some reason it didn't work out. Your example appears to be exactly what I was trying to do. Not sure where my error was but I'll figure it out. Thanks for the sample file!