Pro tip: I used a new brush pack and my whole piece changed color on export...

I was working on a portrait in Procreate and downloaded a free brush set called 'Watercolor Flow'. I painted a whole layer with a nice skin tone, but when I saved it as a PNG, the skin looked super green. Turns out the brush had a weird blend mode set to 'multiply' that I didn't see. I had to go back and flatten that layer to normal before saving. Has anyone else had a brush pack totally mess with their colors like that?

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charles44213h ago

Man, brush settings are a total minefield. I've had similar stuff happen with free packs where the brush opacity is secretly linked to pen pressure and you get these weird, patchy lines. Did the 'Watercolor Flow' pack have any other hidden surprises, like weird texture overlays or a default color profile that was off? Sometimes the creator's canvas settings get baked in.

reese_nelson10h ago

I mean, I actually had the opposite happen. That pack worked fine for me right out of the box. The texture overlays felt pretty normal, like a basic paper grain. Maybe it's just my program, but the color profile seemed standard sRGB. I didn't find any weird baked-in canvas settings either. Sometimes I wonder if it's more about individual program defaults clashing with the brush files.

logan23610h ago

Yeah, that's a solid point from @charles442 about brush settings being a minefield. I used to just download free packs and jump right in, assuming they'd work. A pack with weird spacing settings once made my line art look like a dotted line, and I didn't figure it out for an hour. Now I always open the brush settings and check the blend mode and opacity first thing, it saves so much headache.

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