➤ How to make an image transparent with the brush tool in Corel Photo Paint 🎮

With the incredible tools that the Corel Photo Paint application has, you can make the best changes to your photographic images. This without having to be an expert, as it offers you a very easy to use interface.

But it also has the tutorials that we offer here and then we will explain how to make an image transparent with the brush tool in Corel Photo Paint.

The program offers several ways to apply effects to images and transparency, but not only to images but also to texts. The options offered for this purpose are varied, but this time we will talk about a very simple way to do it. And it is through the use of the brush tool that the Corel Photo Paint application brings.

Creating or inserting effects in this program turns out to be a feature that users really appreciate, but you can also customize them to your liking. So much so that in a few steps we can put custom effects on text and background with Corel Photo Paint.

How to make an image transparent with the brush tool in Corel Photo Paint

So that we can make an image transparent. We must first know that this tool has several options that we can configure. It also offers us a great variety of brush tips whose diameter we can change depending on the use we will make of them.

We can also change a configuration the opacity of the brush strokes and we will make these changes to the transparency on a clipping mask.

This is to prevent us from changing the object or image permanently. Although in this example we will apply it to an image, it works perfectly if we apply it to text or any other file we have in our library.

Lo brush tool for transparency it is located under the Eraser tool. In the same group that the shadow tool and object transparency are in, you will eventually find the object transparency brush. When we select it, the tool's property bar will appear at the top.

Using the different brush tool options in Corel Photo Paint

It is very similar to the properties of the Brush tool or the tool Rubber and therefore share many configuration options. In the first three we can configure the brush tip options. Of which you can choose from a great variety and shapes, also here you can find the ones that we may have created ourselves.

Here too we can specify the diameter of the brush and its opacity, that is, how transparent the brushstroke will be. If the value we set is very low, the greater the transparency of the brush, then we will find another very important option. This is the Dissolve, with it we will soften the edges of the brush, the higher the value, the greater the softness of the edges.

We will also find the Smoothing button, with it we will avoid jagged edges, the button Apply to clipping mask. When this button is active, changes made to the object's transparency will only be applied to the clipping mask that will appear next to the object's layer. And finally the button Press the pen, this in the cases of using a stylus.

Now to use this in an example, suppose you have two images and you want the sky of one image to appear in the sky of the other.

To do this it we combine and select the first image or object and we choose the brush pen with a large diameter. And let's put 0 opacity, 0 fade and press the clipping mask button.

Now we press the left mouse button and drag on the entire sky of the image and we can change the tip of the brush to get more details. We can also add more fade and voila, that way we conclude with this interesting tutorial. Let me explain how to make an image transparent with the brush tool in Corel Photo Paint.