Video Tutorials
Flow vs. Opacity in Photoshop: The Brush Setting Difference That Actually Changes How You Paint
For an embarrassingly long time, I was treating Flow and Opacity like they were basically the same thing. Same neighborhood, different house. I’d bump one up, leave the other wherever it landed, and wonder why my brush work looked either muddy or weirdly flat depending on the day. It wasn’t until I sat down with this Aaron Nace tutorial from PHLEARN that I realized I’d been misunderstanding one of the most fundamental brush settings in Photoshop for years.