When Dodging and Burning one should always keep a few things in mind: 

• Brush settings are a personal choice. I a use soft brush most of the time, with opacity set to 3/10% and Flow set to 100%. Size of the brush, off course depends of the area that I’m working on /brushing.

• You can use mouse for all this, but I would highly recommend a graphic tablet, like Wacom.

It's a personal choice for me 100% opacity 1-5% flow is nice the biggest difference I see is lifting the pen vs constant pressure to increase the effect while using a tablet or heaven forbid a mouse.

Julian Marsalis wrote:
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It's a personal choice for me 100% opacity 1-5% flow is nice the biggest difference I see is lifting the pen vs constant pressure to increase the effect while using a tablet or heaven forbid a mouse.

Even i use 100% opacity and 1-5% flow most of the time.

Ruben Vasquez wrote:
I'll almost always use a soft brush. I don't really care to pick my pen up all the time so I have the flow set to 50% or lower. My opacity will range any where from 1% up to 15%. For me, the biggest thing that determines what my brush settings are is how fast I want to apply the affect. If I want to build up the affect fairly quickly, then I'll have a higher opacity. If I'm trying to be more careful, then a lower opacity setting works better as I can slowly build up the effect right to where I want it.

thank u for the info and i love ur work always

Julian Marsalis wrote:
It's a personal choice for me 100% opacity 1-5% flow is nice the biggest difference I see is lifting the pen vs constant pressure to increase the effect while using a tablet or heaven forbid a mouse.

I'm at that range as well. But everyone is a bit different. I would suggest you focus on the results while working with whatever you are comfortable with. Sometimes you will have to experiment a little to find your preferred settings.

When doing D&B I personally tend to use 100% opacity and 3-5% flow with soft brush and typically "transfer options" in the brush panel set to pen pressure. So I can actually take advantage of the pressure sensitivity of my Wacom. Sometimes I also use the "Shape Dynamics" set to pen pressure as well, but only when I need to fade the brush strokes at the edges. Otherwise I leave it off. Mostly used for drawing not so much D&B. Or maybe when doing something more global where I need more "organic" feel to the brush strokes.

Krunoslav-Stifter wrote:

I'm at that range as well. But everyone is a bit different. I would suggest you focus on the results while working with whatever you are comfortable with. Sometimes you will have to experiment a little to find your preferred settings.

When doing D&B I personally tend to use 100% opacity and 3-5% flow with soft brush and typically "transfer options" in the brush panel set to pen pressure. So I can actually take advantage of the pressure sensitivity of my Wacom. Sometimes I also use the "Shape Dynamics" set to pen pressure as well, but only when I need to fade the brush strokes at the edges. Otherwise I leave it off. Mostly used for drawing not so much D&B. Or maybe when doing something more global where I need more "organic" feel to the brush strokes.

Krunoslav-Stifter you always give amazing information. When i use 100% opacity and 1-5% flow  my brush edgers are not Sharpe its like a noise it paints.

so that  the reason i start using the other way around.

Krunoslav-Stifter you always give amazing information. When i use 100% opacity and 1-5% flow  my brush edgers are not Sharpe its like a noise it paints.

so that  the reason i start using the other way around.

What do you mean by not sharp and by being like noise? Sounds a bit strange to me.

Krunoslav-Stifter wrote:

What do you mean by not sharp and by being like noise? Sounds a bit strange to me.

can i send u a image

SHADOWILLUSIONIST wrote:

can i send u a image

Can you upload the screenshot here?

Krunoslav-Stifter wrote:

Can you upload the screenshot here?

I have emailed you