Apr '23

Hi all, I'm new to the program but not a complete stranger to photoshop. I learned how to use it (sort of) in university, but I always found it to be a major headache and prefered to work out of Adobe illustrator. Since the age of Photoshop CS4 the software has gotten a bit easier to use (ctrl + z finally goes back more than one step!! HALLELUYA!). I would consider myself stranged from Photoshop tho since I've avoided it like the plague for over a decade... and I'm not sure why pressure sensitivity works on some brushes and not others. I'm folloing Marc class step by step, and I can't find how he gets the Hard Mechanical brush in 70pxls to fade... See screenshots below.

Hard Mechanical is solid black no matter what pressure I apply:

Hard Round Pressure Size brush picks up the pressure.

Apr '23

Tick the Transfer box, it used to be called opacity, somewhere in that decade they changed the name. It ticked me off, heh.

when you click on it make sure the opacity is set to pen pressure.

Apr '23
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Thank you!! It work (sort of). On the work sheet his round brush has distinct transparent cercles while mine look opaque but lighter in color.. maybe it's the new version of photoshop.

Apr '23

Oh that’s weird. So the thing that makes it transparent on his is the drop down of the opacity setting set to “pen pressure”. But if yours if it’s lighter but opaque that makes me think it’s a wrong color and not black. Or there are also opacity settings at the top of the window panel when you have your brush tool selected, make sure that’s at 100%. But if that was lower percentage it would be transparent.

His brush has a higher spacing percentage setting on it to make the sequential circles like that. And “pen pressure” setting on his transfer opacity, as well as the transfer box ticked on. When I get back home I’ll screen cap the settings.

Apr '23

Okay so hard round brush yea, opacity and flow are at full 100%, brush tip shape panel window shows 32% spacing here.

And then on transfer ticked on, opacity jitter and flow jitter on mine are set to pen pressure.

And with black I get this.