Making your brush opaque in Photoshop primarily involves adjusting the Opacity slider when the Brush Tool is selected.
To control the opacity of your brush strokes in Adobe Photoshop, the most direct method is by using the Opacity slider available in the Options bar when you have the Brush Tool active.
Here's how you typically make your brush strokes more or less opaque:
- Select the Brush Tool: Ensure the Brush Tool is active.
- Locate the Opacity Slider: Look in the Options bar, which is usually located near the top of the Photoshop window. You will find a setting labeled "Opacity".
- Adjust the Slider: Click and drag the Opacity slider, or enter a percentage value into the associated field.
- Setting the Opacity to 100% will make your brush strokes fully opaque, completely covering pixels beneath them.
- Setting the Opacity to 0% will make your brush strokes completely transparent (no effect).
- Values between 0% and 100% will result in semi-transparent strokes.
Reference Note: According to the reference provided, this method using the opacity slider with the brush tool is effective. The tutorial referenced was written using Adobe Photoshop 2021, and it states that these methods also work the same way in Photoshop Elements.
Using the Opacity slider allows you to control how much the paint blends with the underlying layers or colors. A fully opaque brush stroke will lay down color without any transparency, giving you solid coverage.
