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Opacity vs. flow

Opacity vs. flow

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Opacity vs. flow

- So here we are back inside of Adobe Photoshop. I've opened the Rebekah.psd file from our Exercise Files. This file actually came from Chris Orwig, another author here on lynda.com. I encourage you to check out his various titles here on lynda.com. So what we're going to do first is we're going to talk about the different brush controls that we have using the pressure sensitivity of our pen on our Wacom tablet. So I'm going to switch over to my Brush tool and up above I have certain controls based on pressure sensitivity, namely Opacity, Size, and Flow even comes into play a little bit here. So let's first take a look at Opacity. If you look down at our Layers panel, I actually have a completed layer called Exposure and this is kind of the look that we're going to go for. We're going to change the adjustment on this using an overlay layer. So to set this up, I'm going to go down to my Layers panel and add a blank layer and change my blend mode to Overlay. Next I'm going to go up to…

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