Photoshop Brush needs to be more opaque.

JordanN · Feb 2014

I made a brush that has the values I like but once I start using it, the values are quickly destroyed because they immediately blend.

What I want is for the brush to stop blending values immediately or to reduce the intensity of it.

I have my opacity and flow set to 100% and nothing else is checked in the brush presets. I also tried a layer trick but it doesn't work (i.e, setting the layer opacity to 50% only nulls the purpose of the brush). Also changing the mode (ex:multiply,burn etc) doesn't work. Pencil tool doesn't retain the values (it's just a solid square).

The left is the original brush, the right is the heavy blending I don't want.

Kurt Russell Fan Club · Feb 2014

Try going into the brush settings and either under Texture playing with the blending mode (e.g. mode to Hard Mix and 5% depth) and/or adding a dual brush.

I'm not 100% sure of the effect you're trying to get, but this will give a paintbrush style effect like these:

JordanN · Feb 2014

You know when you copy and paste an image, the image "stacks" on top instead of merging or blending with a picture?

That's exactly what I want (although I would make further modifications later). Right now, I want photoshop to stop treating the brush like it's suppose to get darker every time I make brush strokes or paint over it.

MeintevdS · Feb 2014

Well if you're using a graphic that has 50% opacity it's the same as setting your brush settings to 50% opacity and it will always stack.

lysaara · Feb 2014

Do you think you could try using a regular hard brush and then applying your texture with a Pattern Fill layer effect? I don't know of any way to get the effect you want using regular brush settings.

MeintevdS · Feb 2014

Rather than making a brush, maybe do "edit>define pattern" and then just use "edit>fill" and use that pattern to fill the selected area?

AlecMoody · Feb 2014

You could also just change the color you are painting the brush with. Make the color you paint with the grey value you want and darken the brush so that it is nearer to full opacity.

JordanN · Feb 2014

lysaara wrote: »

Do you think you could try using a regular hard brush and then applying your texture with a Pattern Fill layer effect? I don't know of any way to get the effect you want using regular brush settings.

MeintevdS wrote: »

Rather than making a brush, maybe do "edit>define pattern" and then just use "edit>fill" and use that pattern to fill the selected area?

This is better but, the steps I would want to do after would require too much work.

I wanted to manually paint in value scales with the premade brush that I can make brighter/lighter on the fly (photoshop allows for this). The one obstacle ruining the whole process is once I make a stroke, photoshop sullies the whole thing by making it black rather than just leaving the brush alone.

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2014

Lay down your image, then instead of using a brush... make a selection, activate the marquee tool (m), hold Ctrl and Alt, and left-drag the selection. Each drag equals a new image, and its all in the same layer. Not as nice as a brush, but closer to what you want.

JordanN · Mar 2014

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

Lay down your image, then instead of using a brush... make a selection, activate the marquee tool (m), hold Ctrl and Alt, and left-drag the selection. Each drag equals a new image, and its all in the same layer. Not as nice as a brush, but closer to what you want.

Alright, I just tried it out and it works. Thanks!

Photoshop Brush needs to be more opaque.

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