Brushes transparency

I don't seem to be able to get transparency on my brushes. Transparency still seems to work on layer styles etc, but not on my brushes. For instense when adding smoke or similar to my work through brushes smoke comes over as a solid instead of being partly transparent.
Hope this enough information. i am still on CS5
Many thanks

The weird thing I find now looking into my brushes palet, there are are no brushes with soft edges available at all, including the Adobe standard round brushes. Just black dots with hard edges.
Thanks for the reply

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OK. Looks like it is me that is confused, but I thought it should have been Cmd plus Option, but Jullieanne Kost mentiones Control Option in this post
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2012/07/changing-the-brush-opacity-in-photoshop-cs6.html
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/4288146#4288146
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Hi!
When I draw a path and use a calligraphic brush (like Calligraphy 1) as the stroke the line gets set with a transparency but in the Stroke Opacity panel it
is at 100%. If expand the appearance, then the line will be filled correctly, but I want to preserve just the line with the stroke and the calligraphic brush.
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Martin

Sorry Paul may have things a bit confused your script return me…
0.5 cm Black Arrow
5 Point White Star
Airbrush Soft Round 50% flow
Art History Brush 20 pixels
Aurora
Background Eraser 30 pixels
Chalk Build Up
Chalk with Medium Heavy Flow
Circular Rainbow
Close Cross Hatch
Crop 4 inch x 6 inch 300 ppi
Crop 5 inch x 3 inch 300 ppi
Crop 5 inch x 4 inch 300 ppi
Crop 5 inch x 7 inch 300 ppi
Crop 8 inch x 10 inch 300 ppi
Desaturate 13 pixels
Fill with Bubbles Pattern
Fuzzy Cluster Loose
Fuzzy Gesture Tool Small
Granite
Healing Brush 21 pixels
Heavy Marker Smaller Tip
Heavy Marker with Fuzzy Edges
Horizontal Type Myriad Roman 24 pt
Magnetic Lasso 24 pixels
Marker Medium Tip
No Style
Paintbrush Oval 45 pixels Multiply
Pointillism
Scattered Ornament Flower
Spongy
Spray Can
Starburst Color Target
Texture with Brush
TieDyed Impressionist 25 pixels
Transparent Red Spray Paint
Vertical Type Myriad Roman 24 pt
Which is my tools presets yes? Where as X's gives me…
[Brushes]
Hard Round 1 pixel
Hard Round 3 pixels
Hard Round 5 pixels
Hard Round 9 pixels
Hard Round 13 pixels
Hard Round 19 pixels
Soft Round 5 pixels
Soft Round 9 pixels
Soft Round 13 pixels
Soft Round 17 pixels
Soft Round 21 pixels
Soft Round 27 pixels
Soft Round 35 pixels
Soft Round 45 pixels
Soft Round 65 pixels
Soft Round 100 pixels
Soft Round 200 pixels
Soft Round 300 pixels
Airbrush Hard Round 9
Airbrush Hard Round 13
Airbrush Pen Opacity Flow
Airbrush Soft Round 17
Airbrush Soft Round 45
Airbrush Soft Round 65
Airbrush Soft Round 100
Airbrush Soft Round 200
Airbrush Soft Round 300
Spatter 14 pixels
Spatter 24 pixels
Spatter 27 pixels
Spatter 39 pixels
Spatter 46 pixels
Spatter 59 pixels
Chalk 11 pixels
Chalk 17 pixels
Chalk 23 pixels
Chalk 36 pixels
Chalk 44 pixels
Chalk 60 pixels
Star 14 pixels
Star 26 pixels
Star 33 pixels
Star 42 pixels
Star 55 pixels
Star 70 pixels
Dune Grass
Grass
Scattered Maple Leaves
Scattered Leaves
Flowing Stars
Fuzzball
Chalk
Charcoal Large Smear
Hard Pastel on Canvas
Oil Pastel Large
Dry Brush Tip Light Flow
Dry Brush
Watercolor Loaded Wet Flat Tip
Watercolor Small Round Tip
Oil Heavy Flow Dry Edges
Oil Medium Wet Flow
Wet Sponge
Rough Round Bristle
Airbrush 75 Tilt Size and Angle
Airbrush Dual Brush Soft Round 45
Sampled Brush 1
Circle 1
Circle 2
Circle 3
Circle 4
Concentric Circles
Crosshatch 1
Crosshatch 2
Crosshatch 3
Crosshatch 4
Dashed Circle 1
Dashed Circle 2
Dashed Circle 3
Diamond
Ornament 1
Ornament 2
Ornament 3
Ornament 4
Ornament 5
Ornament 6
Ornament 7
Ornament 8
Snowflake
Star - Small
Star - Large
Starburst - Small
Starburst - Large
Texture 1
Texture 2
Texture 3
Texture 4
Texture 5
Texture 6
Triangle
Triangle - Dots
Brush Heavy Flow Scattered
Drippy Water
Dry Brush on Towel
Heavy Scatter Flow
Heavy Stipple
Brush on Light Weave
Light Oil Flat Tip
Paint on Rough Texture
Paintbrush Tool Texture Comb
Rough Dry Brush
Rough Ink
Scattered Dry Brush
Scattered Dry Brush Small Tip
Large Texture Stroke
Oil Heavy Flow Small Tip
Brush with Thick Flow Medium Tip
Oil Medium Brush Wet Edges
Oil Small Tip
Oil Medium to Large Tip
Brush Light Texture Medium Tip
Watercolor Heavy Loaded
Watercolor Heavy Pigments
Watercolor Heavy Medium Tip
Watercolor Fat Tip
Watercolor Textured Surface
Watercolor Light Opacity
[Colors]
Red
Orange
Yellow-???
Green
Blue
Violet
[Gradients]
Foreground to Background
Foreground to Transparent
Black, White
Red, Green
Violet, Orange
Blue, Red, Yellow
Blue, Yellow, Blue
Orange, Yellow, Orange
Violet, Green, Orange
Yellow, Violet, Orange, Blue
Copper
Chrome
Spectrum
Transparent Rainbow
Transparent Stripes
[Styles]
Default Style (None)
Color Target (Button)
Double Ring Glow (Button)
Striped Cone (Button)
Blue Glass (Button)
Negative (Image)
Puzzle (Image)
Sepia Tone (Image)
Sun Faded Photo (Image)
Blanket (Texture)
Nebula (Texture)
Sunspots (Texture)
Tie-Dyed Silk (Texture)
Chiseled Sky (Text)
Chromed Satin (Text)
Overspray (Text)
Sunset Sky (Text)
Basic Drop Shadow
1 Px Stroke 0% Fill Opacity
1 Px stroke 100% Fill Opacity
Default Style (None)
Color Target (Button)
Double Ring Glow (Button)
Striped Cone (Button)
Blue Glass (Button)
Negative (Image)
Puzzle (Image)
Sepia Tone (Image)
Sun Faded Photo (Image)
Blanket (Texture)
Nebula (Texture)
Sunspots (Texture)
Tie-Dyed Silk (Texture)
Chiseled Sky (Text)
Chromed Satin (Text)
Overspray (Text)
Sunset Sky (Text)
Basic Drop Shadow
1 Px Stroke 0% Fill Opacity
1 Px stroke 100% Fill Opacity
Pink Gloss
White Gloss
Orange Gloss
Black 3D
Blue 3D
White Gloss
Grey 3D
Blue 3D
Wax Flat
Yellow 3D
Yellow 3D
Grey Gloss
Green Flat
Black 3D
Pink Gloss
Orange Flat
Grey Blue 3D
Wax 3D
Red 3D
Blue 3D
Yellow Flat
Grey Gloss
Red Flat
Blue 3D
Blue Gloss
Red Gloss
Grey Flat
Green 3D
Blue 3D
Green Gloss
Black Gloss
Blue 3D
Wax 3D
Green 3D
Blue 3D
Blue 3D
Orange 3D
Green 3D
Pink 3D
Red 3D
Gren 3D
Olive 3D
Yellow 3D
Red 3D
Blue Gloss\
Blue Gloss
Pink 3D
White 3D
Blue Grey 3D
Orange 3D
Blue Flat
Olive Flat
Blue Gloss
Green 3D
Orange 3D
Olive 3D
Gold 3D
Pink 3D
Green Gloss
Green Flat
Grey Blue 3D
Blue 3D
Blue Gloss
Blue 3D
Blue Pipe
Purple 3D
Olive 3D
Blue 3D
Olive 3D
Green Flat
Green Flat
Orange 3D
Black Gloss Pipe
Blue 3D
Green Semi Flat
Blue 3D
Blue 3D
Pink Flat
Blue 3D
Blue 3D
Blue Pipe\
Green 3D
Grey Gloss
Grey 3D
Neon - Use on Black BG
Grey Blue Gloss
Ornage 3D
Green Flat
Blue Pipe
Orange Flat
Wax 3D
Blue 3D
Grey 3D
Wax 3D
Black Gloss
Yellow 3D
Red Gloss
Green 3D
Blue Gloss
Blue 3D
Pink 3D
White Gloss
Blue Flat
Grey Pipe
White 3D
Blue Grey Flat
Green Flat
Blue 3D
Purple 3D
Lavendar 3D
Blue Flat
Blue 3D
Blue 3D
Red Flat
Grey 3D
Yellow Flat
Green 3D
Brown 3D
Brown Red 3D
L Green 3D
Grey Black 3D
Grey 3D
Blue 3D
Green Gloss
Orange 3D
Red Gloss
Brown Gloss
L Brown 3D
Red Gloss
Blue Gloss
Blue Gloss
drop
tj hughes blue
tj hughes yellow
tj hughes red
tj hughes green
tj hughes warehouse
[Patterns]
Bubbles
Wrinkles
Woven
Wood
Tie Dye
Satin
Optical Checkerboard
Nebula
Molecular
Metal Landscape
Herringbone 2
Clouds
Pattern 1
Pattern 2
Optical Checkerboard
Pattern 3
[Shaping Curves]
Linear
Cone
Cone - Inverted
Cove - Deep
Cove - Shallow
Gaussian
Half Round
Ring
Ring - Double
Rolling Slope - Descending
Rounded Steps
Sawtooth 1
[Custom Shapes]
Arrow 5
Arrow 7
Arrow 9
Banner 3
Frame 7
Eighth Notes
Lightning
Flower 5
Grass 2
Light Bulb 2
Thumb Tack
Envelope 2
Scissors 2
Stamp 2
Fleur-De-Lis
Hedera 2
Heart Card
Blob 1
Checkmark
Registration Target 1
"No" Sign
Talk 1
Tile 2
Tile 4
Grid
Starburst
Cat Print
Circle Thin Frame
Square Thin Frame
Copyright symbol
Registered Trademark symbol
Trademark symbol
Talk 1
Talk 2
Talk 3
Talk 4
Talk 5
Thought 1
Thought 2
Bone
Fish
Cat
Dog
Snail
Rabbit
Bird 1
Bird 2
Dog Print
Cat Print
Arrow 1
Arrow 2
Arrow 3
Arrow 4
Arrow 5
Arrow 6
Arrow 7
Arrow 8
Arrow 9
Arrow 10
Arrow 11
Arrow 12
Arrow 13
Arrow 14
Arrow 15
Arrow 16
Arrow 17
Arrow 18
Arrow 19
Arrow 20
Banner 1
Banner 2
Banner 3
Banner 4
Ribbon 1
Ribbon 2
Seal
Frame 1
Frame 2
Frame 3
Frame 4
Frame 5
Frame 6
Frame 7
Frame 8
Whole Note
Half Note
Quarter Note
Eighth Note
Eighth Notes
Sixteenth Note
Bass Clef
Treble Clef
Flat Symbol
Sharp Symbol
Tree
Fern
Shamrock
Butterfly
Sun 1
Sun 2
Waves
Raindrop
Cloud 1
Cloud 2
Lightning
Fire
Snowflake 1
Snowflake 2
Snowflake 3
Moon
Leaf 1
Leaf 2
Leaf 3
Leaf 4
Leaf 5
Leaf 6
Leaf 7
Flower 1
Flower 2
Flower 3
Flower 4
Flower 5
Flower 6
Flower 7
Grass 1
Grass 2
Grass 3
Light Bulb 1
Light Bulb 2
Left Hand
Right Hand
Left Foot
Right Foot
Umbrella
Key 1
Key 2
Bow
Puzzle 1
Puzzle 2
Puzzle 3
Puzzle 4
Pencil
Pen
Marker
Paintbrush
Crayon
Phone 1
Phone 2
Hourglass
Thumb Tack
Sheriff's Badge
Crown 1
Crown 2
Crown 3
Crown 4
Crown 5
Envelope 1
Envelope 2
Scissors 1
Scissors 2
Paper Clip
Stamp 1
Stamp 2
Confetti
Splatter
Holly
US Flag
Point Right
Point Left
Fleur-De-Lis
Ornament 1
Ornament 2
Ornament 3
Ornament 4
Ornament 5
Ornament 6
Ornament 7
Ornament 8
Leaf Ornament 1
Leaf Ornament 2
Leaf Ornament 3
Floral Ornament 1
Floral Ornament 2
Floral Ornament 3
Floral Ornament 4
Hedera 1
Hedera 2
Hedera 3
Spiral
ZigZag
10 Point Star
10 Point Star Frame
5 Point Star
5 Point Star Frame
Flower 1
Flower 1 Frame
Flower 2
Flower 2 Frame
Hexagon
Hexagon Frame
Club Card
Heart Card
Spade Card
Diamond Card
Crescent Moon
Crescent Moon Frame
Diamond
Diamond Frame
Heart
Heart Frame
8 Point Star
8 Point Star Frame
Rounded Square
Rounded Square Frame
Triangle
Triangle Frame
Blob 1
Blob 1 Frame
Blob 2
Blob 2 Frame
Circle
Circle Frame
Circle Thin Frame
Square
Square Frame
Square Thin Frame
Woman
Man
Airplane
Help
Phone 3
Checkmark
Exclamation Point
Question Mark
Starburst
X
Pedestrian
School
Wheelchair
Sign 1
Sign 2
Sign 3
Sign 4
Sign 5
Sign 6
Car 1
Car 2
Bicycle
Recycle 1
Recycle 2
Yin Yang
Female Symbol
Male Symbol
Bull's Eye
Radioactive
Nuclear
World
Compass
Boom 1
Boom 2
Star
Copyright
Registered
Trademark
Registration Target 1
Registration Target 2
Information
Campfire
"No" Sign
Mac Pointer
Windows Pointer
Checked Box
Check Box
Talk 1
Talk 2
Talk 3
Talk 4
Talk 5
Thought 1
Thought 2
Paw Prints
Tracks
Tile 1
Tile 2
Tile 3
Tile 4
Tile 5
Grid
Add
Delete
Back
Forward
Down
Up
Save
Mail
Checked Box
Home
Help
"No" Symbol
Movie
Music On
Music Off
Search
World Wide Web Search
Shopping Cart
Volume
Tabbed Button
Time
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Magnetic Lasso 24 pixels
Crop 4 inch x 6 inch 300 ppi
Crop 5 inch x 3 inch 300 ppi
Crop 5 inch x 4 inch 300 ppi
Crop 5 inch x 7 inch 300 ppi
Crop 8 inch x 10 inch 300 ppi
Fill with Bubbles Pattern
Horizontal Type Myriad Roman 24 pt
Vertical Type Myriad Roman 24 pt
5 Point White Star
0.5 cm Black Arrow
Starburst Color Target
Art History Brush 20 pixels
Circular Rainbow
TieDyed Impressionist 25 pixels
Airbrush Soft Round 50% flow
Aurora
Chalk Build Up
Chalk with Medium Heavy Flow
Close Cross Hatch
Fuzzy Cluster Loose
Fuzzy Gesture Tool Small
Granite
Heavy Marker Smaller Tip
Heavy Marker with Fuzzy Edges
Marker Medium Tip
No Style
Paintbrush Oval 45 pixels Multiply
Pointillism
Scattered Ornament Flower
Spongy
Spray Can
Texture with Brush
Transparent Red Spray Paint
Background Eraser 30 pixels
Desaturate 13 pixels
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Hello everyone,
I know that there is a feature in Photoshop cs6 which will change your brush into a tool that affects the opacity of the layer it is used on.
That is to say, if layer 1 was all blue and layer 2 was all green, using this brush tool on just one small spot on layer two would make that spot transparent, revealing the blue layer 1 underneath.
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When I drag the healing brush over a section I want to heal, the sampled color looks just fine, but when I release the mouse button, the area turns semi-transparent instead of keeping the full color. I thought there was a problem with my transparency setting, but I can't seem to find where to view that, and I don't think this is the issue. If I drag the brush over the same area a few times, the area does not become more opaque.
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Thank you so much for any help anyone can give me, I really appreciate it!

The healing brush samples pixels of the surrounding area to be fixed. In areas where adjacent areas are different from target zone you can run into problems. Like OldBob says the clone stamp may work better as one can pick the area you are cloning from easier.

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When brush overlaps itself it creates unwanted transparency.

When I draw with a brush that is scribbly and overlaps itself, areas where the stroke is overlapping becomes transparent and other areas where there shouldn't be any stroke are colored in. I'm not sure why it's doing this or how to fix it, but the idea of going over every area like this in my document and filling it in by hand sounds like a terrible solution.
Has any one else had this problem?

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Many brush and artistic filters don't handle transparent pixels

I had made some text, then rasterized it and I was going to apply the sprayed stroke filter to rough it up, but it doesn't do anything. Seems this filter (and several others) can't alter a layer's alpha (transparency) channel. Is that supposed to be the case? I would've expected it to treat the alpha channel the same as the color channels. I don't have the channel transparency locked. There are workarounds for this, but I wondered if maybe anybody else had encountered this and knows if I'm doing something wrong.
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Yeah, a lot of the older artistic filters don't handle transparency, or CMYK, or 16 bit/channel, etc.

I just finised with brush tool and eye driopper earsing part of the backgorund and adjusting ther rest of the image. I now want to take the image make it transparent and incert it into another file with only parts of this file showing through. Any sugge

As, we can all see I have been working for so long I can no longer spell therefore please forgive my errors

It sounds like he simply wanted to select an element in one document and copied it over to another document.
One suggestion I can give: Step away from the computer every once in a while. It's not healthy to just sit there for hours on end. Get up for a few minutes every so often.

Is there an event that is triggered whenever a brush stroke is made?

Actually, to be more precise, I'm hoping to be able to intercept each brush "stamp" - I don't know how to call it. When you draw with a brush, your "spacing" parameter controls how many pixels between each brush "stamp". I'd like my script to be able to do something each time the pixels of the active layer are about to be modified by each brush "stamp".
Is this even possible with Scripting?
Thanks in advance
T

But your description seems somewhat vague – what are you trying to achieve?
Photoshop has long lacked a Painter-style Image Hose. Every other paint program has it and it escapes me why Photoshop hasn't included something like that yet. My thought was to leverage the Clone Stamp tool and intercept each "stamp" by switching clone sources. That way, you could set up a document with your image "nozzles" on a transparent background, establish 5 or six different clone sources and then when drawing on your new document, the script would randomly select a different clone source, thus "stamping" down a randomized assortment of images. Since I'm not very experienced in C, the plugin route isn't an option for me. Alas, it looks like I won't be filling this gap myself. There is a pugin called PhotoSpray, but based on the website, the vendor doesn't look terribly professional or reputable and I question the quality of the plugin.

How can I make a brush that starts and ends in a thin line?

I am looking to make a brush that I can use for cartooning in CS6 that starts out thin, gets thicker with pressure (I have a cintiq), and ends in a thin line. Does anyone have the expertise to make one?
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I watched the first half of the tutorial from your link and some parts of the rest. It is a good tutorial. He is using an art brush which profile was created from an elliptical shape with sharp corners which gives that ink kind of appearance which is good for this kind of style. Most of the time though I prefer the appearance of the rounded ends of the calligraphic brushes. Also one advantage of the calligraphic brushes is that it can change its size or the size of the selected strokes with the [ and ] keys on the keyboard while with the art brushes this is done by changing the stroke weight which also can change the weight of calligraphic brushes in addition to the [ and ] keys.
Like in the tutorial I often use a similar workflow ending up with the brush strokes converted to filled paths but I simply use expand appearance then remove the unwanted parts with the Eraser brush which can be made pressure sensitive in the options that you get when double clicking the Eraser tool. This is less precise than the technique the guy is using in the video tutorial but it is quick, I like the hand touch appearance of the imperfections, and it also allows me to paint the white (transparent) highlights like for example the highlights on the booths of my cowboy. The Blob brush is the tool above the Eraser in the Tool panel and works basically the same like the Eraser but it adds to the fill of a path and it also has these and more options when you double click it. I use it most of the time in a combination with the Eraser to add or remove final details of illustrations started initially with brush strokes and then expanded. And like in the video tutorial I also like to keep a copy with the stage before expanding the brush strokes in case I need some changes on brush stroke level.
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