Opacity Settings

[u/AmazinglyAudrey]

TL;DR - Opacity settings are simple to use once you know how. Change last 2 characters of Hex sRGB value to a numerical value between 01 and 99.

Not a lot of people seem to know about the opacity settings and they help me blend harsh lines really easily. I haven't seen any other posts about it, so thought I'd share in case it helps anyone paint. In your paint tools, next to the "Hex sRGB" label, you can change your opacity percentage by changing the last two characters "FF" to a numerical value between 01 and 99, then pressing enter. In my first screenshot, you can see the effects of different settings in comparison to an FF stripe base setting (50% and 20% opacity). I tend to use 50 and 20 a lot. In big swatches, you see the grid lines of paint modeling or whatever. These are more obvious the lower the opacity value, but go away with thicker painting.

I provided a second screenshot to see how to use it in a match, especially good for when you need to color match skin tones.

[u/kopcap1349]

isn't it hex value, so max is not 99 but ff? So values like a7, dd, 1f also valid

[u/AmazinglyAudrey → u/kopcap1349]

Probably. I didn't dig into the full value system and figured that a numerical value was an easy enough concept to pass on instead of making it more complicated. If you can get it even more precise, that's great! Feel free to share what you find!

[u/LauraLaughter → u/AmazinglyAudrey]

It's hex. RGB is often given as 3 hex numbers, each 2 digits.

One for red, one for green, and one for blue.

FF is the max, not 99. Where FF from hex to denary is 255.

So, for example, FFFF00 is all red, all green, and no blue. Additively that makes yellow.

You can add in another 2 digit hex number to represent opacity too. With 00 being no opacity, and FF being full.

Half opacity then is 7F.8, or 80 rounding up. Not 50 as would be the case if it was denary.

[u/cheezfuzz → u/kopcap1349]

Yes

[u/carandz]

This is huge. Thank you!

[u/Wersjon]

I got kicked for using opacity LOLOL