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It's just far too easy to accidentally hit one of those wee sliders with a stray finger and accidentally change brush size or transparency. I realise that, depending on what tools someone is using, they may wish to have this quick access to brush size or transparency but when I'm working in a pen and ink style, I want to set a 'nib' size, set an ink colour and transparency and then get on with my drawing, without those changing. I can hide the interface but I can't get rid of the puck or the two wee sliders which change brush size and transparency. One of my big frustrations with Sketchbook is that there's no way to properly lock a tool's settings. Yet I'm seeing this huge difference in transparency on export.įinally, to come back to the point I made earlier about "accidentally" changing the settings:
My laptop and Android device were both setup with the screen at roughly the same brightness level and both using sRGB as the colour profile. Whilst that could make some difference, it's unlikely that it would make this much. I know that when this was brought up by the OP, the response was that it was probably due to differences between Android device and laptop. What might be about 90% transparency in Sketchbook is probably about 40% or 50% when exported into Photoshop. Now here's the same image exported as PSD and opened in Photoshop:Īs you can see the transparency levels are way off. I must have accidentally nudged the opacity slider when drawing. With the benefit of hindsight I can see that there is some slight transparency in the black areas towards the top edge. Here is some Celtic Artwork that I've been working on in Sketchbook on Android tablet. When is 100% opacity 100% opacity and when is it not? I can see this leading to a lot of confusion. Why not the fills produced by the Ink Pen? The fills produced with the Paintbrush seem to behave as expected. If I'm using a tool which lays down a solid colour and I have opacity set to 100% I would expect the stroke produced to be completely opaque. Have you got an address to send them, or can I attach them to a reply here?Īside from any potential difference between display on my Galaxy Tab vs my MacBook Air, I'm still puzzled as to why this partial transparency is arising in the first place? I'll prep a couple of examples for you to take a look at.
I can see a wee bit of transparency on the Android screenshot but it seems to be only on one stroke. So, why is this happening? Why is Sketchbook not honouring the 100% opacity settings of these outlines when exporting to PNG or PSD? This is really slowing down my work as I'm having to double check and fix each image in Photoshop, before I can use it. Same image exported as PNG or PSD and opened in PhotoshopĪs you can see, there is a massive difference in the opacity of the Ink Pen strokes as viewed in Sketchbook itself and those same strokes when exported and viewed in Photoshop. However, if I then save the image to my Dropbox and open it on my laptop in Photoshop, this is what I see: With the visibility of the background layer turned off, this is what I'm seeing on my Android device: Both Ink Pen and Paintbrush set to 100% opacity. I've been using the Ink Pen for outlining and the Paintbrush for colouring. I've been doing some cartoon style illustrations recently with solid flat colour and outlines, on Sketchbook for Android.