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I’m working on an image with a "star field" effect created by adding noise to a black field and then running the grain filter with both sliders set to 100. The effect is actually pretty good on screen, but when I went to press it just looked like the image was dusty.
I think I’ve got it fixed, but I noticed something weird while I was playing around. Setting the brush tool to 1 pixel diameter and 100% hardness and clicking to get a white spot actually gave me several altered pixels in various shades of gray, some quite dark. I had expected the result to be a single white pixel as if I had used the pencil tool instead.
Is this normal? And if it is, is there a way to control just how light or dark the color actually will be? I presume this must have something to do with anti-aliasing, maybe?
Thanks,
Peter
I think I’ve got it fixed, but I noticed something weird while I was playing around. Setting the brush tool to 1 pixel diameter and 100% hardness and clicking to get a white spot actually gave me several altered pixels in various shades of gray, some quite dark. I had expected the result to be a single white pixel as if I had used the pencil tool instead.
Is this normal? And if it is, is there a way to control just how light or dark the color actually will be? I presume this must have something to do with anti-aliasing, maybe?
Thanks,
Peter
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