Trouble with simple water

[ahms]

hi! i'm new here and to painter x and have a question

i was using the simple water brush (default settings) to paint. everything was going really well. i then took my image into photoshop quick to clean up line work. when i put it back into painter again to paint my simple water brush was giving me a different effect

how my brush is set before



now using the same brush again with same color, its coming so much darker. it looks like its interacting with the paint underneath it now, where as before i was painting fine on top of it

i haven't been able to find an answer yet. maybe i had some other setting on my brush to make it so "light" but i cannot guess to as what, or photoshop messed up something. any help is appreciated thanks

[ahms]

upon further investigation, if i start a new layer to paint on (and hide the other one), all my brushes work fine and give the effect i want. its only with this layer than it becomes darker. all the settings look fine though and i can't figure it out

[geminiguy]

Hope I am correct here but, when I look at all the settings, it looks as though you have a different color selected in the second scenario?? All the other settings are the same, except the color being used

[ahms]

ah sorry. it is the color i chose in the first picture. i used the red in the second one to make the circles. those are two different shades of purple i used, both of which are coming *much* darker than they originally were

[geminiguy]

Oh, o.k., well... never mind then... It really is quite puzzling then?? and definitely no possability of any changes made while working with each shade, that were not saved without realizing it?? (just trying to start at the more common situations) It's the only way to know if this is a serious program flaw or just an innocent / simple oversight

That is a very nice piece, by the way

[Christine Farrelly]

When you take an image into Photoshop it loses the watercolour ability and becomes just another layer.

Please do not post such large images.

Christine