From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Opacity vs. Flow

Opacity vs. Flow - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

Start my 1-month free trial

Opacity vs. Flow

“

- [Instructor] Alright, 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 control shift N or command shift N on the Mac, and I'll call this guy opacity, and click OK. Alright, 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 brushstrokes interact with each other uniformly. Let's say that's not what I want. Let's say I want the brushstrokes to build on each other. Then I would just go ahead and restore an opacity value…

Contents