Brush-size versus colour transparancy.

[Lusketrollet]

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. :sad:

 

[Paul]

Pixels mate, that's all i can think of really - go in and in and pixels blow it's what they do. I draw also with a leaded pencil yeah some here probably scratching there heads 'lead pencils'? i understand your frustration mate but hey shops a cruel mother to cross.
Maybe another member with more understanding of the powers within the shop box can help you, but like i said earlier it's those pesky pixels mate.

 

[Azraelsson]

Hello Lusketrollet. You may want to check the hardness of the brush that you're using. If it's set at 0%, you'll have a lot of feathering. You may also want to check the settings on/for your tablet.

 

[gourhou]

thanks for your solution !