Hello, I have a question about how to change the settings of a brush so that when you do two strokes, you get no added effect between the two. For example, in two separate strokes that cross one another in an "X," both have patterns on them, even grey parts. In what I am trying to do, the middle of the X wouldn’t end up darker, it would just be the second stroke painting through the first stroke as if there was nothing there.


I am working with greyscale, so it’s fine that it doesn’t work with coloured paintings. I figure it has something to do with Blending Mode settings. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

If you edit your brush settings and select Opacity and disable pen pressure, that will do it. I've just tried that with the basic tip and soft gaussian brushes. It works with all colours. With pattern brushes, you have to disable other parameters as well. You need to experiment.

I suggest that you try it to see if it's the effect you want.

ahabgreybeard wrote:If you edit your brush settings and select Opacity and disable pen pressure, that will do it. I've just tried that with the basic tip and soft gaussian brushes. It works with all colours. With pattern brushes, you have to disable other parameters as well. You need to experiment.

I suggest that you try it to see if it's the effect you want.

I think you misunderstood his question. he said when you make two separate crossing strokes, it creates a "pattern like" effect similar to some kind of checkered pattern we have on some clothing. Because the part where the strokes cross one another becomes more opaque.
Disabling pen pressure on the opacity parameter, wil just make the stroke opacity constant. But if you make two crossing strokes with a lower than 100% opacity, the same effect will occur.

kkutliev wrote:Hello, I have a question about how to change the settings of a brush so that when you do two strokes, you get no added effect between the two. For example, in two separate strokes that cross one another in an "X," both have patterns on them, even grey parts. In what I am trying to do, the middle of the X wouldn’t end up darker, it would just be the second stroke painting through the first stroke as if there was nothing there.


I am working with greyscale, so it’s fine that it doesn’t work with coloured paintings. I figure it has something to do with Blending Mode settings. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Just set the blending mode of the brush to "Greater". It's under the "Mix" group.

artur89sd wrote:

ahabgreybeard wrote:Just set the blending mode of the brush to "Greater". It's under the "Mix" group.

Sorry, but when I go under Mix, it doesn't have a Greater option. Maybe I need to update my software. But thanks a lot, anyways.

kkutliev wrote:

artur89sd wrote:

ahabgreybeard wrote:Just set the blending mode of the brush to "Greater". It's under the "Mix" group.

Sorry, but when I go under Mix, it doesn't have a Greater option. Maybe I need to update my software. But thanks a lot, anyways.

Must be the case.
Can't remember when this was introduced, but it was quite recently.

I'm lcosing this post, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete it on my part, but I found that it's best to just merge the upper layer with strokes of paint with the background layer and then paint over it, then merge it down. I'll play around with the tools later to see. THank you both!