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[Lusketrollet]

The following is a post I made on another forum I stumbled upon, but I obviously figured I ought to post it here, as well. Please help me. This is driving me nuts.

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Hey. I need to ask you about something that has been troubling me for a while.

Generally speaking, it seems as though with most colours, the colour you have chosen will be come increasingly... "transparent", the smaller your brush-size is. For example, let's say I pick a black colour against a white background, and draw a line. If the brush-size is, for example, "25", the line will be fairly thick and black. But if I go lower - let's say a brush-size of "4" or "5" - then the line will end up just looking increasingly grey.

This is really frustrating. I'm used to drawing with thin-nibbed pens and hard pencils, where the colour is strong and the drawn line is thin. I find this gives me the best overall control over the actual drawing. I can't even begin to describe how frustrated I am that Photoshop seemingly has no intention of allowing me to do something as crazy as *gasp!* make a line that's thin and black at the same time. I'm using a tablet for drawing, (A Wacom Cintiq 12WX), and though the thought has occurred to me, I do not think this has got anything to do with that.

Please help.

[Jerryb]

hi,

now keep in mind i am just a novice and i hope people more knowledgeable than me will jump in but this is my take... and alittle background

first remember you have brush and pencile!!!!!!!!!!! choices...

photoshop people when designing a brush TRY to take into account all the attributes of a REAL brush, sofft edge, hard edge, flow rate, shape, pressure, etc ... it seem only in the newest verson version of ps do they really start to look at the number of bristles and shape of the bristles.... great for painters...

so depending on what your doing you may need to check the attributes of the brush your using...

now i think many people overlook the "pencile" choice... now the pencile your caan easily get very hard thin edges..

try this little experiment...
pick a a normal round hard edge brush and set it for 4 pixels ... with standard default and draw your line, you may find that the edge of the line not quite as sharp as you expect. but again it a brush...

now chose your pencil, which has different attributes than a brush... now here using the same size and default . and draw your lines the lines are very nice and sharp and crisp ....

and also notice the difference between choices of preset between the pincile and brushes.....

now there is another attribute haven't really mentioned yet.... and that is pressure. how much pressure you apply to a brush and pencile can change the results just like in the real world....

and you may need to check/change the presett setting of your brush/pencil...

now in his case with his tablets, now it really hard to adjust the pressure with a mouse... smiling.. howerver with a tablet how hard you ress that pen can makedifference but you need to make sure to tell photoshop to allow the tablet pressure setting to override the normal ps default pressure settings....

well that my clumsy attempt....lol ..trying to explain... smiling.... i hope it helps.... definitely using a tablet give you a wider range of control with brushes and penciles.