Now we should talk a little bit more about our brush because there's something I neglected to talk about. And that is a lot of people want to know the difference between opacity and flow. And so I'd like to show you the difference there. When I choose a brush and I start painting with it, it looks out both the A pass ity and the flow settings to determine how much you can see through my brush. And if they're both had 100%. When I click and drying like this in the very center of my brush, you will not be able to see through the middle at all. I'll choose undo. If I change the opacity setting, then you're gonna be able to see through my brush in. So if I bring that down, let's say I brought it down toe 20% or somewhere near there. Now, when I click and I drag, you can see that I'm only getting a hint of this color showing up, and then I can go back and forth and back and forth and notice if I go back and forth. I'm not getting multiple coats of paint. It's not like having a can of spray ...

paint where the more times you go across the Moor coach to get. But if I do, let go of the mouse button and I click again, which I just did, we get a second coat of paint and it doesn't matter how many times have pain across that. It's only two coats now. Let go again in Click and I get 1/3 coat of paint and I can let go click and get 1/4. But to build up the effect, I have to let go of the mouse button and click again. Many choose undo a few times to get back to what we had earlier. Now let's bring capacity all the way up to 100 instead bring flow down to around 20%. And let's try the same thing. I'm gonna click here and I'm gonna drag and then I'm not gonna let go of the mouse, and I'm gonna drag in Dragon and Greg across the same area multiple times. So flow means how much do I want in my first paint stroke across the area. But if I paint across it again, I'm going to get Maura and Mawr and Mawr, so you could think of adjusting flow. It's like using a can of spray paint where the more times you go across an area, the more coats you get, the difference being that if you go slower, you don't get mawr and faster getting less because you get that with a can of spray paint. But it's just counting the number of times you go across. Then you can use flow and opacity together. If you bring capacity down, let's say I have it at 50. In fact, if you use the number keys on your keyboard, you're going to be changing the opacity if you're in the paint brush. So if I take five, I get 50%. Type nine you get 90% were type two numbers very quickly. To get a precise value, like 32% you gotta type three to really fast. So if I set opacity to 50% and I set flow to, let's say, 20% how does that work? Well, in the end, it's going to be that opacity determines the maximum amount you can get without releasing your mouse button, so that means they'll never get more than 50%. Opacity flow means how much of that maximum? Um, I going to get on the first pass, so I'm gonna get 20% of 50. Then if I paint back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, it's gonna build up. But it's never going to get above whatever the opacity is set to. Unless I released the mouse button, and only then could it add more so flow and opacity can be nice. It's a matter of do you want it to build up a zoo pain across and across. If so, adjust flow, or do you want it to not build up? If you happen to overlap, your pain strokes and you have to release the mouse button in order, ADM. Or if that's what you're looking for, instead, be using capacity and some people will get fancy and use both. The number keys on your keyboard will change opacity when you're in the paint brush tool, and if you hold down the shift key when you use the numbers, it will change the flow. Typing zero brings it to

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Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

Lesson Info

59. Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

Lessons

Introduction To Adobe Photoshop

Bridge vs. Lightroom

Tour of Photoshop Interface

Overview of Bridge Workspace

Overview of Lightroom Workspace

Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents

How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders

Developing Raw Images

Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs

How to Save Images

Using the Transform Tool

Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Selection Tools

Combining Selection Tools

Using Automated Selection Tools

Quick Mask Mode

Select Menu Essentials

Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Align Active Layers

Creating a New Layer

Creating a Clipping Mask

Using Effects on Layers

Using Adjustment Layers

Using the Shape Tool

Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool

Masking Multiple Images Together

Using Layer Masks to Remove People

Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky

Adding Texture to Images

Layering to Create Realistic Depth

Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

Optimizing Grayscale with Levels

Adjusting Levels with a Histogram

Understanding Curves

Editing an Image Using Curves

Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment

Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode

Editing with Blending Modes

Color Theory

Curves for Color

Hue and Saturation Adjustments

Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment

Match Colors Using Numbers

Adjusting Skin Tones

Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw

Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush

Retouching with the Clone Stamp

Retouching with the Healing Brush

Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools

Extending an Edge with Content Aware

Clone Between Documents

Crop Tool

Frame Tool

Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools

Paint Brush Tools

History Brush Tool

Eraser and Gradient Tools

Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

Blur and Shape Tools

Dissolve Mode

Multiply Mode

Screen Mode

Hard Light Mode

Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes

Smart Filters

High Pass Filter

Blur Filter

Filter Gallery

Adaptive Wide Angle Filter

Combing Filters and Features

Select and Mask

Manually Select and Mask

Creating a Clean Background