Using the Paint Brush tool we will paint in the darker sky, keeping the brightness and colours of the foreground. The top layer has a Black Mask applied so that we can see any of the darker layer. Starting with two images stacked, I have the base image on the bottom and a darker image on top. Using a setting as low as 5% will work excellently and always produce a soft graduated fade. Because flow works continuously, you can afford to reduce it dramatically to give a smoother blend. There is no need to click multiple times. Every time you paint over the same area it gets darker. If you set the brush Flow to 20%, hold down left-click and begin to paint. The downside to this is sometimes you can get banding where the opacity layers haven’t blended well.įlow works differently, All you need to do is hold down the left mouse button once.

Essentially, the way opacity works is by stacking levels of opacity on top of each other. Only when you release the mouse button and then click it again, does it then darken by another 20%. It doesn’t matter how often you paint over the same area, that area won’t get any darker.

When you left-click and hold to paint with a brush that has a low opacity level such as 20%. Whereas, a brush with 1% Opacity will barely be seen at all. Opacity is the level of transparency of your brush.

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