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Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

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

Class Description

Lessons

1. Introduction To Adobe Photoshop 2020
2. Bridge vs. Lightroom
3. Tour of Photoshop Interface
4. Overview of Bridge Workspace
5. Overview of Lightroom Workspace
6. Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
7. How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
8. Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
9. Developing Raw Images
10. Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
11. How to Save Images
12. Using the Transform Tool
13. Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
14. Selection Tools
15. Combining Selection Tools
16. Using Automated Selection Tools
17. Quick Mask Mode
18. Select Menu Essentials
19. Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
20. Align Active Layers
21. Creating a New Layer
22. Creating a Clipping Mask
23. Using Effects on Layers
24. Using Adjustment Layers
25. Using the Shape Tool
26. Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
27. Masking Multiple Images Together
28. Using Layer Masks to Remove People
29. Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
30. Adding Texture to Images
31. Layering to Create Realistic Depth
32. Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
33. Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
34. Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
35. Understanding Curves
36. Editing an Image Using Curves
37. Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
38. Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
39. Editing with Blending Modes
40. Color Theory
41. Curves for Color
42. Hue and Saturation Adjustments
43. Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
44. Match Colors Using Numbers
45. Adjusting Skin Tones
46. Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
47. Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
48. Retouching with the Clone Stamp
49. Retouching with the Healing Brush
50. Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
51. Extending an Edge with Content Aware
52. Clone Between Documents
53. Crop Tool
54. Frame Tool
55. Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
56. Paint Brush Tools
57. History Brush Tool
58. Eraser and Gradient Tools
59. Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
60. Blur and Shape Tools
61. Dissolve Mode
62. Multiply Mode
63. Screen Mode
64. Hard Light Mode
65. Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
66. Smart Filters
67. High Pass Filter
68. Blur Filter
69. Filter Gallery
70. Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
71. Combing Filters and Features
72. Select and Mask
73. Manually Select and Mask
74. Creating a Clean Background
75. Changing the Background
76. Smart Object Overview
77. Nested Smart Objects
78. Scale and Warp Smart Objects
79. Replace Contents
80. Raw Smart Objects
81. Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
82. Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
83. Panoramas
84. HDR
85. Focus Stacking
86. Time-lapse
87. Light Painting Composite
88. Remove Moire Patterns
89. Remove Similar Objects At Once
90. Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
91. Replace a Repeating Pattern
92. Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
93. Remove an Object with a Complex Background
94. Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
95. Warping
96. Liquify
97. Puppet Warp
98. Displacement Map
99. Polar Coordinates
100. Organize Your Layers
101. Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
102. Layer Style: Knockout Deep
103. Blending Options: Blend if
104. Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
105. Layer Comps
106. Black-Only Shadows
107. Create a Content Aware Fill Action
108. Create a Desaturate Edges Action
109. Create an Antique Color Action
110. Create a Contour Map Action
111. Faux Sunset Action
112. Photo Credit Action
113. Create Sharable Actions
114. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
115. Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
116. Image Compatibility with Lightroom
117. Scratch Disk Is Full
118. Preview Thumbnail