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Brush Settings: Flow Opacity and Transferby *Tatchit

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My hand writing is ugly, but I didn't feel like typing it out on different layers; sorry if you can't read it lol.

I know I'm not the only one out there that got a little frustrated when trying to wrap my mind around 'Flow.' It's still worded oddly when I think about it. 'RATE AT WHICH PAINT IS APPLIED' just doesn't sound good to me, haha.

But today I sat down and started to experiment with my settings-using only Opacity, Flow, and Transfer's settings which has Opacity and Flow as well-I set each and both to Pen Pressure to see results.

Some people don't know the difference between Flow and Opacity-but one thing's for SURE-Opacity cannot become darker during one stroke no matter how many times you run over your lines (staying in one stroke of course, like scribbling).

Flow can, and will become darker when you run over your same lines again and again until it reaches the Opacity percentage!

So if you have Flow set too...say 3% (super light haha), Opacity to 40%, your lines won't ever go above 40% Opacity no matter how much you scribble over and over in your one stroke. It'll also take a while to get to that percentage as well-because the rate is so low.

I like to have my Spacing (how far apart your single brush tips are) at only 1%. Sometimes the brushes I use are set at the default 25% and I leave them alone though. But for fur, I don't want choppy brush strokes because of spacing issues.

Thought I'd share, and sorry if the file is giant-there is so much more that can be done too. Also-the best thing to learn these little tid bits is to experiment. Change settings around and see what happens-you might find a new setting you like better.

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~IL-JA Mar 29, 2013

very useful information, however I do not know how to set spacing? (I'm still a newbie at Photoshop) and I love all your work. ^^

~crazykiro Nov 27, 2012

which brush do u use while writing the 'brush used: hard round'? please answer

*Tatchit Nov 28, 2012

Just the regular hard round with the Transfer settings on.

~Edge0Distruction Nov 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

wow thanks for the info this rely helps a lot!

~TechnicolorDreamCat Oct 25, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

This is really helpful! Thank you!!

~T-i-n-a-t-i-n Oct 17, 2012

you are awesome*-* what brush do you use? and you can say all the settings, please

~MinxFox Sep 14, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Ahh this is so great! I never knew this...To bad when I learned in Multimedia class how to use photoshop they don't go over if you are into digital art how to use the different brushes different ways.

*Tatchit Sep 14, 2012

Really? I think that it would be a pretty good thing to learn since these tools can really affect the way a brush stroke/brush behaves. Glad it came in handy nevertheless!

~MinxFox Sep 14, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Yeah true. Thanks!

~KechK Aug 4, 2012 Student General Artist

thanks for the tutorial but where do you go to change the spacing settings? coz whenever my flow and opacity brushes are with flow jitter turned on to pen pressure ( flow and opacity at 100 %) i get un smooth lines... you know like lots of circles alligned together..

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