Apologies if this is answered elsewhere - cannot see it. I'm starting to make use of the abr photoshop brush import and find that some brushes ( big background texture brushes like planks of wood vp-wood-brushes-cs2.abr ) are semi-transparent. Is this a result of an original alpha channel being imported with the brush? Layer set 100 and normal -- result appears to be about 50% when seen over a layer with red rectangle . Explanation/help welcomed!