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Opacity versus Flow

Opacity versus Flow - Photoshop Tutorial

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Opacity versus Flow

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- [Instructor] All right, now let's take a look at a couple of other options up here in the options bar, Opacity and Flow. Both of which make your brushstrokes translucent, but in different ways. And so I'm just going to go ahead and turn off these layers here, and create another one just by pressing Ctrl + shift + N, or Cmd + shift + N on the Mac, and I'll call this guy opacity and click OK. All right so, by default, both the values are set to 100%, and so let's say I paint a couple of brush strokes here, and I'll paint one in one direction and the other in the other, like so. If I wanted to reduce the opacity of the entire layer, I would take down the opacity value here inside the Layers panel. But notice as I do, that the brush strokes interact with each other uniformly. Let's say that's not what I want, let's say I want the brush strokes to build on each other. Then I would just go ahead and restore an opacity value…

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