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Brush opacity problem


SPWA

SPWA

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Ok, being very noobie with Photoshop, the title may be misleading & its not an opacity issue, but I have been learning via Tutorials on the internet & basically experimenting. Recently I wanted to try & work through a Baseball text tutorial, and see how it goes. But I'm running into a problem. (I don't have the grass file cos I wan't interested in the background)

Here is what I should have, above what I actually have.. mine looks very faded, as if the opacity is set wrong, but can't see the issue.
Step_11_5-01.png
Any advice would be appreciated. I went into another file & played around with adding a stroke from a brush, but got the same result. Thanks
 
it looks like you created the new lawyer and had a white background applied to a less than 100% opacity layer before flattening image
 
I wondered along those lines, but I checked all the layers opacity & they are Normal 100%. The image above is just a saved .png while the layers were still active. No flattening has taken place.
 
The opacity was reduced somewhere along the line, impossible to tell from here but if you have the history of the PSD you should be able to backtrace. Whether it be in the brushes or layers, it's impossible for us to say definitively.
 
I will go back & check through what I can find. I just tried another document. Created a circle & tried adding a stroke using various brushes, & they all come out faded. The shape is fine, no opacity at all, just the brush.

If I want to get it to the true color, I have to go to the Paths window, and press Stroke path with brush about 10 times to get it right. I'm sure it's something simple, but at the moment its leaving me feeling simple :(

Thanks for the input iDad.
 
What that is telling me is the brush opacity needs to be increased Or maybe even the mode needs to be changed. If the layers at 100% check your brush opacities
 
if you upload your psd then maybe someone can figure it out quicker there can be many possibilities here...
 
The only problem you had, was the opacity of the stitches, even though they were at 100%. All I can think is that you set the opacity of this layer to 20% or something, then merging with a blank layer.

The .psd is fixed now
View attachment 32970

To remedy this, I right clicked on the layer with the stitches and then chose duplicate layer. I then merged the two stitch layers and repeated the lest process of duplicating the stitch layers until they stopped getting darker. You can alter the opacity by clicking the circled area on the picture. You can also alter these setting in the dialogue box that comes from double left clicking the layer in question.

View attachment 32971
 
Thx for looking. I've tried a few times since the original post. I can create a new file from scratch at anytime, never altering any opacity on any layer. Yet any brush I use still comes out at about 20%. I just checked again now. The layer % was at 100, & the % at the top options bar is also 100%.

I guess putting multiple layers, or even a color overlay like I see you have in the file, then merging. If I get the visible result I want in the end, that's the main thing.
 
SPWA, I know iDad mentioned this. Did you check the blend mode on the brush itself, not the layer? If it is set to overlay or screen, soft light, etc., that would mess up your brush stroke. It should be normal unless you have a specific purpose to change it.
 
Thx ibclare, I hadn't tried again with the stroke issue in last day or so, but checked that exact same setting earlier as sprucemagoo mentioned it in my Magma thread. While I was working on my Magma image, it was set to multiply 50%, so I set it to Normal 100%. I'm almost positive I had checked it while experimenting before.

However, I tried the "Stroke Path" again just now, & it worked fine. *blush* I have nooo idea how I missed that before but can only assume that was the problem.

I will go sit in the noob corner for 10mins :)
 
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