Reply To: how do I prevent paint stroke from getting darker with each brush pass?

[aecii]

My apologies. I didn’t realize i left it on grease pencil.  Here’s the re created settings.
I made sure pressure sensitivity is off.

Strength is at 0.47 because i dont want it as harsh…
wait a minute….. OH!!  I think i get it  now;  So strength HAS to be set at 1 so it does not behave this way…  

Therefore, if i want to soften the stencil image i have to lighten it in krita/gimp first because the source is too strong. (if i’m making  sense) If so, i would take the stencil into krita, create a new transparent layer, paste the stencil into that layer and set alpha to 50% so its half transparent. then bring it back to blender. Correct?

If that’s the case, is there a way to do that within blender?
Still learning my way around texture/paint features.

Thanks!