brush tool

[denisen20381054]

Okay, bare with me because I'm new. But. Today I learned how to use the brush tool to create basically the glow/golden hour look like a fake sun. I must have clicked something because I'm trying to do this to another picture & now instead of making a bright white circle when I click with the brush tool it doesn't do anything. HELP PLEASE

[Trevor.Dennis]

So you don't know what preset you used?  I'd guess that it was a round, fully soft brush, but factors like if you are using a tablet would make a difference.  You can reset your brushes to get back to the defaults.  Right click inside the image window with the brush tool selected, and the soft brush is the first on top left corner.  Or make sure everything (except smoothing) is unchecked in the brush panel, and move the Hardness slider all the way left.

Having said all that, there are better ways to make a sun.  Use a new layer and stamp down your sun, then copy that layer and use Gaussian blur to give your haziness around your sun.  Set the layer blend mode to Screen.

[davescm]

Hi

The way the brush works on your image depends on the brush settings and on the layer settings that you are brushing on to.

Can you show a screenshot of your full screen with the brush tool selected. Include in it the options bar at the top of the screen and the layers panel with the layer you are brushing onto selected.

Dave

[denisen20381054 · Accepted solution]

i figured it out. thank you both soooo much!