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What mysterious liquid brush tool is this in this video???


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Wolfy Snackrib

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I've asked three different people who use Photoshop, including the guy who made this video and I can still not figure out what type of tool with what settings it is that this artist is using, starting at 45 seconds into this video.

The two friends I asked about this didn't seem to even notice the characteristics I tried to point out. He draws his brush around and it spreads like liquid, and notice how few shades of gray it is. It looks segmented, and it spreads like liquid, and notice how the brush strokes don't collide and mix with one another, but rather where he draws has the tones merged, it looks extremely useful!

Please, does anyone have any idea of how to access this feature cause I have been looking for quite a while now and I can not for the life of me figure out how it was done! Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0OAC2GCHcs&list=UUOKnowjtVMbkh4nz2z_puvA#t=45s
 
For the life of me, my YT downloader isn't working on this one. Or I could have downloaded it and zoom in.....

From what I could see....

He's using a Paint brush in airbrush mode with various brush configurations. Everything else in the settings are normal and at what seems to be 100%, full setting. The three color shade swatches you see in the drawing could be his color swatch samples for his brush.

The layer he's applying brush strokes is locked to prevent the transparent pixels in the layer getting affected by the brush. the background you see is actually layer 1 with a color fill.

What's strange is the image layer is in NORMAL MODE. Had it been in Multiply mode as his tute suggests will explain why the brush strokes seem magical. But it's NORMAL. The brush is set to NORMAL as well.

Which leads me to question whether the top most layer (with what looks like a fill or something) is set to MULTIPLY MODE. This will definitely have some effect on the underlying layers.


But that's what my eyes see.... and sleepy brain thinks.... lol....

Someone here may have a more accurate explanation.........
 
Layer Mode: Normal
Transparency locked

Brush settings...
Mode: Normal
Opacity:60%
Fill: 100%
Not in Airbrush mode.

Brush presets are:
Other Dynamics
Smoothing

The MAGIC is the Brush design itself.
 
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And I read you're the only one who questioned him about it.... the rest were all praises.....

His replies doesn't answer your question, either.....


At the moment of scene fade in (0:44 secs) , his history state had something that is too blurry to figure out. His brush, layer and other settings appear to be the same. And moved up too fast coz of the number of strokes applied..... yet, his brush, layer and other settings appear to be the same as before.
 
Could be.... the only way is to try replicating it.

Tho the OP did say he tried everything even the settings in the tute.....




IamSam said:
Layer Mode: Normal
Transparency locked

Brush settings...
Mode: Normal
Opacity:60%
Fill: 100%
Not in Airbrush mode.

Brush presets are:
Other Dynamics
Smoothing

The MAGIC is the Brush design itself.
Click to expand...
 
dv8, we were typing at the same time. He was in Airbrush mode until 1:12, then he switched to the settings I stated.
 
The earlier parts showed him adding the base color in normal mode (not airbrush).

It's that part during the fade in that I'm most curious about..... when the brush output/effect changed.......

I could be wrong... 6am here and almost 40 hours without sleep.... eyeball quality changes.... LOL.
 
At :50 he is using......

Layer Mode: Normal
Transparency locked

Brush settings...
Soft Brush: 600
Mode: Normal
Opacity:100%
Flow: 100%
Airbrush mode.

Brush presets are:
Other Dynamics
Airbrush
Smoothing
 
If these were the settings and used in conjunction with a tablet and its settings, it's possible .....

A point he may have forgotten to mention....... unless I missed it.....


IamSam said:
At :50 he is using......

Layer Mode: Normal
Transparency locked

Brush settings...
Soft Brush: 600
Mode: Normal
Opacity:100%
Flow: 100%
Airbrush mode.

Brush presets are:
Other Dynamics
Airbrush
Smoothing
Click to expand...
 
Finally, I managed to catch the interests of others and now we're all trying to piece this together. I did try to look at his settings when he switched between brushes and what not, and I've tried the settings that I could see. I don't think I've tried locking the transparency mode or whatever it was called, so I'll try that approach. Thanks for your added input.
Keep trying to solve this riddle, I'll be burning the midnight oil to try and find the solution myself! xD
 
Uh wait, did you guys mean transparency lock on the brush itself or on the layer? I thought it was something to do with layer, so nevermind I've tried that as well unless it has something to do with layer.
 


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