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Specifying opacity, pressure, or exposure
You can specify opacity, pressure, or exposure for
a variety of tools:
Opacity is used by the gradient fill, pencil, paint-
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brush, clone stamp, pattern stamp, and impres-
sionist brush tools.
Pressure of action is applied by the airbrush,
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smudge, blur, sharpen, and sponge tools.
Amount of exposure is used by the dodge and
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burn tools.
To specify opacity, pressure, or exposure:
Enter a value, or drag the slider for Opacity,
Pressure, or Exposure in the options bar.
Opacity, pressure, or exposure can range from 1%
to 100%. For transparent paint or a weak effect,
specify a low percentage value; for more opaque
paint or a strong effect, specify a high value.
If you have selected a tool without an opacity
option in its options bar, press a number key to
set the opacity in multiples of 10% (pressing 1 sets to
10%, pressing 0 sets to 100%).
Specifying the effect of stylus pressure
Photoshop Elements is compatible with most
pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets such as the
Wacom tablets. With Control Panel software for
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your tablet installed, you can specify the type of
effect that results when you vary stylus pressure.
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These stylus pressure options affect the magnetic
lasso, magnetic pen, pencil, paintbrush, airbrush,
eraser, clone stamp, pattern stamp, impressionist
brush, smudge, blur, sharpen, dodge, burn, and
sponge tools.
To specify the effect of stylus pressure:
Click the Brush Dynamics button (
options bar, and choose Stylus for each of the
options you want to set:
Size to have increased pressure create a broader
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brush stroke.
Opacity/Pressure to have increased pressure
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make the paint more opaque or more intense.
Color if you want light pressure to paint with the
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background color, making a transition to the
foreground color as the pressure increases. (This
option is only available when using a tool that
supports color.)
Note: If the highest pressure of your stylus does not
reach 100%, contact your tablet vendor. This
problem is caused by the driver software, not
Photoshop Elements.
Specifying a paint fade-out rate
If you don't have a stylus, you can still simulate
actual brush strokes by setting the rates at which
most of the drawing and painting tools fade out
from their beginning strokes. You can specify
which options dynamically change over the course
of a brush stroke: opacity, size, and color can all be
individually set.
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