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Brush Properties-Color Dynamics-Control Fade not working anymore

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April 18, 2023
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If you go into Brush Properties and try to set "Control Fade", after setting the "Foreground/Background setting to 100%, the colors no longer transition between foreground and background. They now basically "mix" the foreground and background together the whole length of the stroke, no longer transitioning between the colors at the Control Fade setting that you entered. To test how this should work, click the "Apply per tip" box and stroke again with the brush, you'll see the colors switched between foreground and background until the location of the "Control Fade" number is reached, then the rest of the stroke will be one color. Also, if you uncheck "Apply per tip" and leave all the other settings you've entered untouched, the color of the stroke will change differently if you stroke again and again, which shouldn't happen! Being a digital artist, I use this "Color Dynamic" "Control Fade" setting in conjunction with the "Shape Dynamics" "Control Fade" setting, to give me hair strands that start out in black and end white tipped all in one stroke. Great effect and time saving. I went to do this yesterday and ran into the above issue and brush "breaker"!! Not sure which update broke this since I haven't used it in a couple of my last drawings, Please duplicate issue and fix. If you need more information from me, let me know. Quite surprised to have discovered this BUG.

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Correct answer davescm

Your screenshots appear to show dynamic color working as designed.

A brush stroke is actually a series of stamps so to get a dynamic colour change along a stroke then 'apply per tip' needs to be checked. To quote the documentation:

Apply per tip - Specifies changing color for each distinct tip stamp in a stroke.

If unchecked, dynamic changes occur once at the beginning of each stroke. You can vary color between strokes, rather than within each individual stroke.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/adding-dynamic-elements-brushes.html

To control the dynamic colour change with Fade, Jitter should be at 0% otherwise you will just get random changes with each brush stamp along the stroke. If you set it to 100% every stamp in teh stroke will be random overriding the fade settings.

The settings below give a smooth red (foreground colour) to green (background colour) fade on every stroke

Dave

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Brad22414184ax00Author

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Wanted to Thank Dave too for replicating my issue and sending the details on the tool!

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Brad22414184ax00Author

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Perfect!!!~ That nailed it, I was screwing up with the 100% setting!

Thanks for sticking with me on this one, Thank the Void, I didn't have to redo all my "settings"! User error. Again, I appreciate the support, Stay Safe, Cory

davescm

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Your screenshots appear to show dynamic color working as designed.

A brush stroke is actually a series of stamps so to get a dynamic colour change along a stroke then 'apply per tip' needs to be checked. To quote the documentation:

Apply per tip - Specifies changing color for each distinct tip stamp in a stroke.

If unchecked, dynamic changes occur once at the beginning of each stroke. You can vary color between strokes, rather than within each individual stroke.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/adding-dynamic-elements-brushes.html

To control the dynamic colour change with Fade, Jitter should be at 0% otherwise you will just get random changes with each brush stamp along the stroke. If you set it to 100% every stamp in teh stroke will be random overriding the fade settings.

The settings below give a smooth red (foreground colour) to green (background colour) fade on every stroke

Dave

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Brad22414184ax00Author

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In each series I sent you I showed you an "apply per tip" stroked path. You can see the results, it is applying per tip thru the progression till it hits the Control Fade setting. I never had "apply per tip" checked in the past to get the fade to work. What happens when you try to replicate this on your end. What results are you getting. You have all the infomation in the screenshots to try this, or should I say "replicate" the process to tell me if it's something on my end ore something that was inadvertantly changed while tweeking something else in one of your updates. It shouldn't take you more than 10 mins to try this on your end, which is why I made sure all the info to replicate the issue was in the screenshots. Let me know your results. if I had another copy of PS on my other PC I would have already tried it on that installation.

CShubert

Community Manager

@Brad22414184ax00 fade for color dynamics requires apply per tip to be enabled, are you saying that you used to NOT have to do that or something else?

If you enable apply to tip, do you still have the issue you brought up?

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Brad22414184ax00Author

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Found the Library using the option key. Moved my Adobe Photoshop 2023 Settings folder to my desktop. Opened PS again, tried the same process and got the same results unfortunately. Sending 3 shots. One with "Apply per tip" checked, and the other 2 showing no fade and surprisingly different color mixes.

CShubert

Community Manager

@Brad22414184ax00 if you hold down your Option key as you select the Go dropdown from the top menu, you will see the Library level you want to start with...

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Brad22414184ax00Author

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I went to the "Manual" link. I don't have a folder called Adobe Photoshop 2023 Settings anywhere on my iMac. The only folder I find when searching the mac is called Adobe Photoshop 2023 and doesn't have a "settings" folder either but, it does have a presets folder. Sending a screenshot.