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Opacity

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Opacity

The opacity slider appears in many of the palettes and is adjusted by either dragging the arrow left or right or typing in a new percentage value. Use this mode to adjust the layer’s appearance in the overall image or adjust strengths of paints and editing tools.

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Here’s one of the ways you can use opacity in a more complex layer structure. I created a background and cut out three seagulls which were then pasted onto the background creating four layers. I wanted two of the seagulls to appear to be in mist, but just changing ...

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