you know how the okeki applet's watercolor brush mixes colors and gets darker with every pass over itself? And how in Photoshop it only gets darker after you let go of the mouse button? is there a way to make a photoshop brush get darker and darker without letting go of the button?

Uhhh... Not sure what you mean. Photoshop does have brushes that allow you hold the button down to get a darker colour.

EDIT: More opaque i should say.

She is saying that you don't get to see how opaque the stroke is untill you unclick the mouse and she wanted to know if there were a way to make it so that you dont have to wait untill you let go of the button for the opaque result to show.

you need to select the airbrush option at the top, where the brush size and other things are. The airbrush used to be a seperate tool, but now it's just a feature of the regular brush. Assuming I'm understanding you right.


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it's the button to the right of the flow control

Actually no, what you want is flow control (like on lascaux). Opacity and flow match how photoshop's work, shi painter only supports flow.

in photoshop the flow control only makes it go darker to the extent that the opacity is set while the brush is in motion. To make it go darker and darker without even needing to move the brush from that spot the airbrush option does cause the brush to continue to output color until the color reaches whatever the color palette and opacity have been set to. There's no setting that I know of that causes the darkness of whatever color is being used to become darker indefinately beyond what the color palette and opacity are both set to.

redpanda, ok good, thats what I was trying to ask. a brush that keeps getting darker and darker until the color it is in the color pallet...without haveing to let go of the button first....

alright, I tried the stuff you guys said, but, I still dont think you understand my question. I think in order to help me you must first try out what im talking about. Its a difficult question to ask and understand unless you try it.

so, first open okeki here on 2draw. get the watercolor tool. use a big size. and just color with it, DONT let go of the mouse button, or lift up your pen, the color starts off a little bit lighter and as you color over it over and over in the same spot it finally becomes the color its supposed to be in the color palett.

now, in photoshop, get any brush, use a big one, and start coloring. DONT let go of the mouse button or lift up your pen. notice that the same color comes out no matter how many times you pass over it. UNLESS you let go of the mouse button and color over it again.

can photoshop do what the 2draw watercolor brush does?

no. only lascaux, shi painter, sketcher, and opencanvas support that as far as I know. painter might as well, but I don't know how.

Ok, I just tried this in Photoshop, Lascaux, and Shi-Painter. If you just leave the opacity at 100% and say put the flow down to 10% in Photoshop or Lascaux it's pretty obvious that you can build up the color without letting up on the brush, just draw a bunch of circles and you'll see it get darker when the lines overlap. You can prove that it works with the eye-dropper, eventually you will get the exact same color that you have on the palette without having to let up on the brush.

wow cool, thanks method. thats exactly what I wanted. exept that its not a smooth stroke...but at least I have something to work with now. cool ^_^ thank you guys for replying. :)