Selecting Brush Tool, black lines are gray?

[lucienp8924865]

I am using Photoshop CS6 Extended, Image Mode is RGB, Brush is Normal;  when I start drawing lines are gray instead of black. If I draw circle using elliptical marquee tool and fill-- the color is black?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Good day!

Could you please post a screenshot taken at View > 100% and with the pertinent Panels (Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible?

What are the Brush Tool’s settings (see Options Bar and Brush Panel)?

Regards,

Pfaffenbichler

[lucienp8924865]

I tried opening New/Blackground, duplicating layer and filling with white--then drawing and had same results?

[davescm]

Your brush opacity is set to 35% which will look grey unless you use several strokes over the top of each other.

Dave

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

And the Flow is at 50%.

If you want fully black lines right away also set that to 100%.

Hitting 0 (zero) and shift-0 should set both values to 100%.

[davescm]

c.pfaffenbichler  wrote

And the Flow is at 50%.

Good spot !!

[lucienp8924865]

Awesome, thanks to the both of you. I was looking for a brush tutorial and I never thought to look at the options on the bar. I clicked on Correct Answer and it marked it as Incorrect. I clicked again--hopefully it took.

[lucienp8924865]

I marked this post as Correct; why does it show Not Answered?

[davescm]

Hi Lucien

You should just be able to go to one of the posts and Press the Correct Answer button. The button will change , allowing you to unmark it if required.

Dave

[lucienp8924865]

Thanks Dave. I did just that but the topic was still showing Not Answered. Probably just a delay at my end. Lucie