I recently got a tablet and i've been messing around with it in PS.
I am having trouble shading drawings. At the moment, to shade, I am creating a new layer and using the paintbrush tool on 30% opacity to shade around.
My problem is that the brush does not darken on top of itself (in one stroke). Say I was to draw an "8", the intersection of the loops would be the same colour as the rest of the lines.
The lines can be darkened if you lift the pen and create a new line, but that is impractical.
Am I making an error or just going about shading the totally wrong way?
I would go in your brush settings and in "Other Dynamics", change opacity jitter to "pen Pressure". Make sure to reset your brush to full opacity, othrwise your brushing will be light indeed.
Then use the color you want for th shadow and work your way into it. but you want multiple colors in shadows, so no matter what for a good shade you will need multiple colors choices (ei. more saturation closer to shadow).
There's a little airbrush icon along the toolbar for the paint tool. Toggle that on and set the opacity back to 100% and then turn down the flow.
It's the Flow setting you want to turn down, not Opacity.
[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;20468494]There's a little airbrush icon along the toolbar for the paint tool. Toggle that on and set the opacity back to 100% and then turn down the flow.[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, I forgot that was there. Personally I hate that method usually you will end up with random dark patches, maybe that's just me. I like the pen pressure opacity because it will allow you to get an even shade with just a control over how hard you are pressing, and the freedom to move lighter or darker where you want it.
edit: if you do want the airbrush mode, turn up your opacity and decrease your Flow, otherwise it won't work.
Ah, of course.
Thanks.
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