How to change predefined, artistic brush contour to 100% opacity?

[HubertusausBerlin]

I have a small operating problem for which I cannot find a solution.

I have assigned a brush to contours (artistic brush, ink).

Looks great - but the outline is always semi-transparent. But I want it to be 100% opaque.

I searched in the brush settings of the brush itself (no setting option that would have changed anything). Even in the usual control panels (Contour: Opacity, Appearance, etc) everything is set to 100% and ‘normal’

Even if I convert the brushstroke to paths, everything is not 100% opaque. Although the settings of the resulting shapesshould have 100% opacity (see screenshot on the right).

Is there no way to change the appearance of the predefined brush to 100% opaque?

I would be grateful for a specific tip.

LG, Hubertus

[Kurt Gold · Accepted solution]

In the Brushes panel, drag the brush entry onto the artboard, change the opacity settings there and drag the new brush definition onto the Brushes panel again.

[HubertusausBerlin]

Hello Kurt!

Many thanks for your answer. I did everything the same way and was also able to create my own brush.

However, even after dragging the brush onto the drawing area, I couldn't set the colour so that it was opaque - although the settings in the control panels indicate this (see the screenshot).

Do you have any ideas as to why this is not working?

[HubertusausBerlin · Accepted solution]

Edit:

I found it - the brushstroke consists of nested layers. If you click inside you get to the base areas which were at 85%.

Many thanks for the solution!

LG + good night!

[mandapop]

@HubertusausBerlin Hey I'm working through this same issue... I can fix the opacity of the brush (mine was also 85%), but I cannot "drag it back" into the brush panel... How'd you do this??

[Ton Frederiks]

Use the ALT/OPTION Key when dragging it back on top of the old brush.

[mandapop]

wahhh that didn't work. I tried option, command, control, function, shift lol... I tried pressing it before dragging it, I tried pressing it after picking it up to drag it... damn. I really wanted that to work. thanks anyway @Ton Frederiks!

[Doug A Roberts]

Are you looking at the brush library, or the Brushes panel?

The library cannot be edited without opening the library file directly in AI (not from Window > Brush Libraries > Other Library).

The brushes panel (Window > Brushes) shows you the brushes in the current Illustrator document. These can be edited.

[mandapop]

The little pop-out floaty panel... I loaded the Artistic_Ink brushes from there, it goes into a little tab... I can drag the brush out onto the artboard, make it 100%, but it won't let me drag it back where I dragged it from. 

[Ton Frederiks]

@mandapop as Doug mentioned, you cannot drag a modified brush into a library, but you can in your current document in the brushes panel.

Alternatively you can edit the brush libraries, these are normal Illustrator files that you can Open, modify and Save. These are the files you use when you open a Brush library from the Brushes panel.