I've updated per the design direction. I just haven't done this yet:
10) So instead of a black 0.7 opacity over it, I don’t have any layer over it, just the blurred image on top of the dark blue bg, at 0.2 opacity (the other way of doing it would be having a layer with same colour as the bg over the blur, at 0.8 opacity - either works)
I changed it to a translucent blurred image over a black background--darkblue and midnightblue did not appear to be very dark at all. The resulting image was quite blue.
I've updated per the design direction. I just haven't done this yet:
10) So instead of a black 0.7 opacity over it, I don’t have any layer over it, just the blurred image on top of the dark blue bg, at 0.2 opacity (the other way of doing it would be having a layer with same colour as the bg over the blur, at 0.8 opacity - either works)
I changed it to a translucent blurred image over a black background- -darkblue and midnightblue did not appear to be very dark at all. The resulting image was quite blue.