Lower Opacity But Keep Pigment Strength?

[zrisso]

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't figure it out. I want to use a brush at 80% opacity, but keep the actual red hue. When lowering the opacity, it lowers the pigment content—the intended effect, I'm sure? For this Brown Madder, it makes it lean pink. I thought to use the Transparent/Semi/Opaque selection, but you can't use that while having color pigments turned on. I tried adjusting the RGB values to compensate, but it still stays some variation of red that leans pink. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[JennaStark]

It's tinting pinkish because your background is white/cream. If you fade out one color, you have to remember to take into consideration the color behind it because the original color is going to (essentially/partially) 'mix' with that. (In this case: red + white = pink.)

If you want your chosen color to stay solid, then it has to be 100% opacity, so the underlying colors can't show through at all. If you need it to be a certain solid color, then you'll have to calculate the shade you need and make your stroke/object that particular color from the get-go, I think.

I tend to work very painterly, so I'm not sure what your preferences are for working, but if you elaborate a bit about the look you're hoping to achieve, maybe I can help more with a suggested, tailored solution?

 

[zrisso]

It's tinting pinkish because your background is white/cream. If you fade out one color, you have to remember to take into consideration the color behind it because the original color is going to (essentially/partially) 'mix' with that. (In this case: red + white = pink.)

If you want your chosen color to stay solid, then it has to be 100% opacity, so the underlying colors can't show through at all. If you need it to be a certain solid color, then you'll have to calculate the shade you need and make your stroke/object that particular color from the get-go, I think.

I tend to work very painterly, so I'm not sure what your preferences are for working, but if you elaborate a bit about the look you're hoping to achieve, maybe I can help more with a suggested, tailored solution?

Sorry, I didn't realize I wouldn't get an email notification of a reply lol. I understand that it's mixing with the paper color to make the pink, but I can't wrap my brain around how to offset that by adding additional pigment. It sounds like something that should be easily done, but I can't for the life of me figure it out.

 

[Veronika Escape Motions]

Hi @zrisso ,

In this particular case, the Pigment color mixing might be causing this discrepancy as we were not able to get 100% accuracy in pigment mixing red and brown colors. We will see what we can do about this.