Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Artwork => Topic started by: screaming on March 18, 2005, 08:39:03 am

Title: Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?
Post by: screaming on March 18, 2005, 08:39:03 am
Adobe Photoshop CS docs say:

Quote
In addition to setting opacity for a layer, which affects any layer styles and blending modes applied to the layer, you can specify a fill opacity for layers. Fill opacity affects pixels painted in a layer or shapes drawn on a layer without affecting the opacity of any layer effects that have been applied to the layer.

  Huh?  Can someone give me an instance when I would want one over the other?  Up until now I've just been arbitrarily playing with the settings, but I really want to know :)

-Steve
Title: Re: Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?
Post by: Pixelhugger on March 18, 2005, 01:55:55 pm
Lets say you create some type. Then you give it a stroke (outline) as a layer effect. Now you want the fill of the type to be semi transparent but the outline to stay completely opaque.. or vise versa. That would be the idea.  :)
Title: Re: Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?
Post by: Pixelhugger on March 18, 2005, 02:05:59 pm
Like so...


As with any graphics app its one of those functions which at face value may not seem like much (as demonstrated below;)) but in more complex situations comes in handy way more often than you'd think.
Title: Re: Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?
Post by: Nannuu on March 18, 2005, 04:05:03 pm
Pixel, They way your wrote that made me think of Fire Marshal Bill from In Living Colour.  Too funny.  Thanks, though, I never knew that.  I've been trying to learn PS and I am terrible at it  :-\
Title: Re: Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?
Post by: Pixelhugger on March 18, 2005, 04:10:51 pm
hehe  ;)
Title: Re: Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?
Post by: Witchboard on March 18, 2005, 04:31:05 pm
I've been trying to learn PS and I am terrible at it
Title: Re: Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?
Post by: screaming on March 18, 2005, 04:45:07 pm
Like so...

As with any graphics app its one of those functions which at face value may not seem like much (as demonstrated below;)) but in more complex situations comes in handy way more often than you'd think.

  oooohhhhh well that makes sense!  Thanks!

-Steve