- I’m a developer, I don’t want to open photoshop
- Filters allow the dev to make the changes without asking a dev
- css filters, etc save network requests
- linear and radial gradients can now repeat
- using a linear gradient and a small repeating image gives you a rich look with very little overhead
background-blend-mode
allows you to specify different blends for each layer of your imagemixed-blend-mode
works across all elements: anything below the element is blended- Videos work below blend modes, the changes a quick to apply without the needs for video editing software
- When a designer exports an element from photoshop with a blend mode, they can be applied via CSS without needing to go back
- Consider browser support, the blend modes are not universal
- Multiple filters can be applied at one time
- The filter opacity ensures the object is hardware accelerated, where as the CSS property is not
- hue filters can be used to replace colours on a product and save a network request
- It’s only a matter of time before we can say goodbye to Photoshop
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