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Paint Stroke Controls
Strokes are rendered based on the brush attributes and the stencil. The stroke
shape is formed by stamping the brush shape along the path created by the
pen (or mouse) movement.
The paint stroke controls have the following parameters:
Operation Paint materials define the material used to render the brush.
Materials include: Paint (default, solid color), Reveal, Clone and Erase.
Pressure When drawing with a tablet, the pressure can be mapped to
the size, opacity, or both (or can be set to Off) of the stamping pattern
while drawing.
Blend The blending modes define how the stroke is blended with the
current drawingsee Blend Modes on page 345.
Matte Off & Invert You can use stencils to apply paint strokes to an
imagesee
Using Stencils on page 592.
Working with Layers
A raster paint layer is a canvas into which you draw strokes. The strokes are
merged together as they are drawn to produce the resulting raster image. Each
layer has a front and an alpha. You can select the one on which you want to
draw by selecting its proxy image in the Layer Editor.
For example, the following graphic shows that the layer named University
is selected and its front image selected for painting (it has a white frame around
its proxy image).
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