Zacatzontli Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 There's probably a real simple answer for this that escapes me. I'm cartooning and colouring in different sections of the image. When I have to change brush size to get into the corners I find that overlapping what I've already coloured in increases the colour strength like if I was using watercolours. Like each stroke adds a 33% opacity until I get a solid colour (see grey coloured area in attached image). I'm using the Basic brushes. What is the setting for brushes which paints the 100% final colour every time I brush an area so I don't get the overlaid brush stroke effect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Zacatzontli said: What is the setting for brushes which paints the 100% final colour every time I brush an area so I don't get the overlaid brush stroke effect? Check the Flow setting for the brush you are using. If Flow is set to say 10% then you will need to paint over the same area ten times to create 100% of the solid colour, if it's set to 20% then five times to create 100% of the solid colour and so on. Set Flow to 100% and see if that gives you what you need... Zacatzontli 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 Also check the Wet Edges setting and make sure it's off. And Opacity should be 100%. Zacatzontli and Hangman 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 and the Blend Mode should be set to Normal! Zacatzontli 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zacatzontli Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 9 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Also check the Wet Edges setting and make sure it's off. And Opacity should be 100%. That's the one! Thank you. The default was Don't set wet edges which I thought would default to off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zacatzontli Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 8 hours ago, PaulEC said: and the Blend Mode should be set to Normal! Now set to Normal. Prior it was Don't set blend mode which I thought wouldn't impact the tool and once I set the wet edges to OFF I saw these settings of Don't set... actually have some kind of setting, possibly automatic which I'll have to look into. Thanks for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zacatzontli Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 13 hours ago, Hangman said: Check the Flow setting for the brush you are using. If Flow is set to say 10% then you will need to paint over the same area ten times to create 100% of the solid colour, if it's set to 20% then five times to create 100% of the solid colour and so on. Set Flow to 100% and see if that gives you what you need... Thanks for this. It was set to 100% and I tested it at 36% and could certainly see how that could produce a similar result. I've learnt something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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