From the course: Drawing and Painting in Photoshop

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Fade - Photoshop Tutorial

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- [Voiceover] When we use a graphic tablet or pen display, we can use the pen pressure to drive the opacity of our brush stroke, like I'm doing it here. When we don't have access to a graphic tablet or a pen display, and use a mouse instead, there actually is an interesting control option that can, at least to a certain level, compensate the lack of pen pressure. Let's have a closer look here at the transfer settings. The control of the opacity jitter is currently set to pen pressure. We will now choose fade from the pulldown menu. And now, if we put down a brushstroke, the opacity of our brushstroke is faded over a given amount of steps that we can define with the value over here. Currently, it's set to 100. If we use a higher value, like 300, our stroke gets longer and is now faded over 300 steps. But what are these steps? In order to show that more clearly, I quickly go to the brush tip shape settings and set the spacing of our brush to a value at which we can see the individual…

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