Overlapping Brush Stroke don't darken CS / CS2

[tombothetominator]

I guess you could always make the excuse that the other programs you listed are actually designed for digital painting so they mimick the properties of true media more realisticly, whereas that was not the primary intent of photoshop....

[Gaikotsu-San]

tombothetominator

True. Can't argue there...it is called 'PHOTO'shop after all

Its just I am so familiar with its settings. I do all my page layouts in Photoshop. Also I can apply textures easily, etc.

I guess I'll just have to go between programs

[Excruciating]

Now.. Well, this took less than five minutes and I think it's the same result. Of course I've switched between colors here, but .. yeah..

Anyways, I guess your right about that function missing. Even though I've never used painter, I don't feel that there's anything missing in photoshop when it comes down to painting.

[Gaikotsu-San]

Excrutiating,

Hey thats good! Now, how did you lay out the shades evenly? DId you smudge or blur?

Did you have to adjust brush size for each layer?

Thanks for your help.

-Gaikotsu

[Excruciating]

Nothing to it.
Iu sed a flow of 5% and opacity 100%. Then I used the same brush size (about 1/10th of the circle) but different colors (it's easy to switch if you you make a few of the color your going to use. Then just use the eyedropper tool (I) to make a quick selection).
THen I just started of making a gray base and from there added the darkest color and worked my way up to the ligther.
You can change the brush mode between normal to overlay or multiply. Overlay for highlights and multiply for shadows.
Finally I duplicated the image and changed the blending mode to dissolve and set the opacity to 90%.

Oh, and call me Pete

[Gaikotsu-San]

PETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You Da Man!!!!

That did it. It now works the way I would expect. With an opacity at 100% and an extremely low flow at 5% causes the feature I was looking for and it makes sense.

The only thing is you have to use a big bigger brush, but that's not a problem

Thank thank thank YOU!!!

[Excruciating]

Glad I could help