Shape tool always has 49% opacity (drawn mask, etc.)

[akgt94]

Using DT 4.0.1 on Windows.

When you add a shape, the default opacity is 49%. This happens when adding a drawn mask. Also when adding a shape in retouch.

Odd choice for a default value. 100% opacity would make more sense. I don’t see a way to change this in preferences.

On more than one occasion, I’ve over-done a module because I didn’t realize the mask’s opacity was not 100%.

I sometimes edit using a touchpad (no mouse). Faking the scroll gesture on a touchpad to increase the opacity to 100% is not easy (for me).

[kofa (István Kovács)]

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Issue with the opacity of drawn masks

Hi everyone, I have noticed an odd behavior with my drawn masks in darktable recently (using dt 4). Whenever I draw a mask, its opacity is set at 35%. I never had a problem before using masks, but the other day it just started behaving like this, which is kind of annoying since I have to raise the opacity of every mask I draw, especially when I’m using several masks. Maybe I did something wrong and didn’t notice? I didn’t find anything in the manual that could explain this. Does anyone know wh…

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

@akgt94

the default opacity is 49%

At some stage you may have accidently set this. The default is 100%. Besides the obvious slider to set opacity, opacity can be set with ctrl+ scroll and I have previously accidently changed opacity when I meant to do a shift+scroll to change the size of the feathering. However, when I tested on my version of DT and drew a second shape the default returned to 100%, so I am unsure if something else is going on with your system, which I can not replicate. Good luck.