Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:22 am Post subject: Brush-size versus colour transparency.
The following is a post I made on another forum I stumbled upon, but I obviously figured I ought to post it here, as well. Please help me. This is driving me nuts.
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Hey. I need to ask you about something that has been troubling me for a while.
Generally speaking, it seems as though with most colours, the colour you have chosen will be come increasingly... "transparent", the smaller your brush-size is. For example, let's say I pick a black colour against a white background, and draw a line. If the brush-size is, for example, "25", the line will be fairly thick and black. But if I go lower - let's say a brush-size of "4" or "5" - then the line will end up just looking increasingly grey.
This is really frustrating. I'm used to drawing with thin-nibbed pens and hard pencils, where the colour is strong and the drawn line is thin. I find this gives me the best overall control over the actual drawing. I can't even begin to describe how frustrated I am that Photoshop seemingly has no intention of allowing me to do something as crazy as *gasp!* make a line that's thinandblackat the same time. I'm using a tablet for drawing, (A Wacom Cintiq 12WX), and though the thought has occurred to me, I do not think this has got anything to do with that.
Please help.
Last edited by Lusketrollet on Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:41 am; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:48 pm Post subject:
You can definitely get a line which is both thin and black. Have a look at what settings you're using with the brush.
In the drop down box, try using a "hard" rather than a "soft" brush. Look at the drop down box next to the brush tip sample at the top. Set hardness to 100%.
Also try increasing the Opacity and Flow to 100%.
If you bring up the brush panel (there's an icon for it, or choose Window > Brush) there are literally hundreds of ways you can vary your brush.
If you stuff around and lose track you can reset your brushes to default using drop down box (top LHS nexty to brush pic + click black triangle inside that).
Another thing to remember is that there is a pencil tool (look in dropdown under the brush tool) - I don't use it much but I believe you might get more of a "hard" line with it.
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