PSD painting tips

layers can be scrolled with up and down arrows ...

scroll brush modes with shift plus and minus.

Modes to use for transparent overlays:

Multiply

Soft Light

Overlay

Color Burn

Turn on pen pressure for size jitter and opacity jitter.

A ‘blobby’ look in your brush comes from too much jitter. Jitter can be 0%.

Color dynamics with 10% jitter pen pressure works foreground and background colors in the stroke:

Lots of fun with hue and saturation jitter:

Use SMOOTHING on all your brushes, it will help when you paint fast

Save your own set of brushes to a unique_name.abr, get rid of annoying brushes like fuzzball ...

use the preset manager to select a bunch of unwanted brushes and delete:

When spacing is set too high, you get this ... if it is too low, performance can take a hit ...