How Do I Stop My Brush from Overlapping in Photoshop?

How do I turn off brush overlap in Photoshop?

Just go to brush settings and turn off the transfer mode.

How do you stop brush strokes from overlapping?

So every time you paint a new stroke by holding down the mouse key, you will add opacity to the layer until it reaches 100%. You can set the entire layer to a lower opacity and your brush at 100%. The screen shots shows, on the left, two brush strokes, with the brush set at 100%.