I want the opacity to stay the same on the area where two different strokes overlap

The first figure demonstrates the behavior i want the brush to have when two brush strokes overlap each other.

You can see in figure 2 that the opacity of the area where two brush strokes overlap is much more than in figure 1, and i don’t want that.

Does anybody have a way to “fix” this ?

I’m also wondering if this is the right category to ask this question so feel free to tell me where i should post this preferably.

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Try greater blending mode for the brush in the top tool bar. You can find this blend mode in the mix category.

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It worked but i had to select one in favorites, not mix

activating the one in Mix doesn’t seem to have an effect

Thanks for for help tho !

I added it to the favorites, if you tick the checkbox it adds itself to the favorite section.

Additionally the pixel engine allows for two painting modes, wash mode and build up. Wash mode is what you probably want. While greater blending mode seemingly does the same, they work different wich shows when you try to paint over it with a different color. If the new stroke is not opaque enough, the new color wouldn’t go over the previous stroke.

Actually, the blending mode that gets used to blend dabs with the “wash” painting mode can also be used as brush blending mode.
It is called “Alpha Darken”.

If you set your brush opacity to 50% (or 51% like in your screenshot), you can never generate more opaque pixels than this, you can however still manipulate the color of all image areas, even those already more opaque than your brush opacity.

However as brush blending mode you can’t control the opacity cap with e.g. pressure etc, it’s always what the opacity slider is set to, so you don’t get quite the control as within a single brush stroke where each dab’s opacity is detrmined from sensors.

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