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Using a Brush With Reduced Flow On a Path

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February 9, 2018
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As the title states I'm using a soft brush to follow a path with a reduced flow value.

The trouble I'm having is that the start and end point is creating a "blob" as there is overlap on the flow. I have the flow set to 9% which is what I need for the proper effect but I can't seem to find any way to eliminate the overlap. I've experimented with many settings but all so far have failed. I have in the past used 100% on a new layer and then adjusted the opacity to get the softer effect as way of a cheat which eliminates the problem but adjusting the opacity unfortunately also effects the soft edge from the bush nearly eliminating it, so it will not work in this particular case.

Is there a way to get around this issue and get a perfect soft brush to follow a path with low flow values and not have the beginning and end points creating a flow overlap?

Cheers

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Sebastian Bleak

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Hi High Iron

"I have in the past used 100% on a new layer and then adjusted the opacity to get the softer effect as way of a cheat which eliminates the problem but adjusting the opacity unfortunately also effects the soft edge from the bush nearly eliminating it, so it will not work in this particular case."

Try using this method but adding a Gaussian Blur to keep that soft edge. I know it doesn't answer your question but I hope it's helpful in getting the right effect.

Cheers!

sb

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High IronAuthor

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"Hi High Iron "

LOL. OK, now you have me a little freaked out... (where's that ninja emoji...)

Good idea with the Gaussian Blur for that soft edge, but the process of using 100% flow still leaves me with a thicker line for the brush size vs reducing the flow. For all intense purposes I am using the brush like using a airbrush and certain effects I can only achieve with controlling the flow. If I'm also not mistaken adding the Gaussian Blur is similar to noise and will add different pixel shades into the mix that will change the overall color or hue of the path being drawn. Can't have that on panel lines on the surfaces of an aircraft can we?...

I'll just have to keep plodding and fussing with the issue as I have before I believe, but there has been some excellent help and suggestions here that has given me solutions to other troubles I have had in the past that now I have solutions to, just not the one I posted.

Cheers,

Thad

Chuck Uebele

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I'm not seeing it:

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High IronAuthor

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I can see it. Look at the node/point next to your start. You will see that there is a build up at that point as the brush goes over where it started, it's as if you paused with the brush. Yours too has the "blob" like mine.

Cheers

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Can you paste a screen shot of the path here please?

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I'm trying to duplicate what you are seeing, but not managing to. What brush size, and what settings are you using? Can you describe in detail what you are trying to achieve?

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Faint as it may be, the eye anchors to it almost immediately. I'm not sure if there is a way around this issue or not. So far the only solution that I've tried that seems to work is using the Eraser and setting the size and flow to the same values of the brush and positioning centered over the node and give it a click or two. It seems to cancel or null out the issue on fine lines, but I'm not sure how well it would work in the size you had used. Thanks for testing Chuck, it confirms it's not just me.

See if setting the brush spacing to 1% works.

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