Brushes are too strong (!?)

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Posted By
Dave B
May 10, 2004
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Here’s a weird problem. I downloaded some custom brushes the other day, didn’t like them, and deleted them. I went back to using the Basic Brushes palette, but they don’t work the same as before – they seem to be too strong now. For example, the sharpen tool at 10% used to be very subtle (as one would expect at 10%) but now at 10% it goes to that ugly over-pixelization very quickly – much more so than before. Or the Burn tool: At 10% it is lacking in any of it’s former subtlety – and at 100% it is down right obnoxious. Even the flow feels different…

I’ve already checked the obvious things:

Airbrush mode vs. normal mode
Using the tools at Shadow, highlight and midtone.
Checked the hardness of the brushes (not that that should effect brush strength)

I’ve been using Photoshop quite awhile now, and I don’t think it’s anything obvious. I’m not aware of any other settings that could have been changed, and I’m thinking that maybe something got corrupted (though I’ll be happy if someone points out something stupid and obvious just so I can have my old brush properties back… 🙂 )

Anyone experienced this…?

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wnor
May 10, 2004
Since you added and then removed brushes, maybe the preferences has been damaged. Have you tried to reset the preferences? That may work.

"Dave B" …
Here’s a weird problem. I downloaded some custom brushes the other day, didn’t like them, and deleted them. I went back to using the Basic Brushes palette, but they don’t work the same as before – they seem to be too strong now. For example, the sharpen tool at 10% used to be very subtle (as one would expect at 10%) but now at 10% it goes to that ugly over-pixelization very quickly – much more so than before. Or the Burn tool: At 10% it is lacking in any of it’s former subtlety – and at 100% it is down right obnoxious. Even the flow feels different…

I’ve already checked the obvious things:

Airbrush mode vs. normal mode
Using the tools at Shadow, highlight and midtone.
Checked the hardness of the brushes (not that that should effect brush strength)

I’ve been using Photoshop quite awhile now, and I don’t think it’s anything obvious. I’m not aware of any other settings that could have been changed, and I’m thinking that maybe something got corrupted (though I’ll be happy if someone points out something stupid and obvious just so I can have my old brush properties back… 🙂 )

Anyone experienced this…?

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