Comments on: Quick Tip #10 – Opacity In Photoshop

By: Nikki - Logo Design Guru

Nikki - Logo Design Guru — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:25:15 +0000

As always, thanks for the great tips. They are always very helpful.

By: charles

charles — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:05:15 +0000

At least for the brush or gradient tool, you can also type in a 2 digit opacity.

With brush selected, simply pressing ’2′ will set it at 20%. If you type in 2-4 quickly enough, it will be set ant 24% opacity.

I’d imagine it might work like that for layers too.

By: liz

liz — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:25:25 +0000

very cool. I had to hold down shift w/ the layer selected for it to work – but then also discovered i could hold shift and + or – to change through the various transparency options! nice.

By: joyoge designers' bookmark

joyoge designers' bookmark — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:36:33 +0000

thank you for helpful tips..

By: Jonathan Patterson

Jonathan Patterson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:07:08 +0000

Nice. It’s always fun to stumble onto something that is extremely useful. I’m sure there are a multitude of other little tricks that are not widely known.

By: Paul Stevens

Paul Stevens — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:03:17 +0000

awesome stuff niki, always looking forward to your quick tips.

By: Michael Haywood

Michael Haywood — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:18:17 +0000

David Leininger got it right! It doesn’t change the LAYER opacity when you use those specific tools that he listed. I just found out that it actually changes the opacity of each specific brush. For example, if you have the brush tool active and hit a number 1-9, it will change the opacity of the brush, not the layer!

By: David Leininger

David Leininger — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:17:33 +0000

Great post. Really nice to know, I hadn’t heard that one yet. One thing my buddy and I did find out is, this tip doesn’t work with certain tools active.

brush tool
clone tool
history brush tool
eraser tool
gradient / Paint bucket tool
the burn / burn / sponge tool

By: murrydan

murrydan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:02:33 +0000

That is a great tip to share with everyone, I have read several photoshop books and I am actually preparing for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam and I have never seen that tip. Thanks.

By: Aaron Irizarry

Aaron Irizarry — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:01:33 +0000

That one is great i didn’t know that. I am gonna try it out today.

thanks

Aaron I