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The strokes wrap around to the opposing side. This feature is useful for
creating patterned texture images to be applied to surfaces. When you
tile or repeat the image on the surface, the wrapped strokes help make
the borders between the images unnoticeable.
If you want to display the area of the canvas where the edges join, you
can do this using the roll feature (Canvas > Roll).
5 Select Canvas > Clear >
. In the options window, slide the Clear Color
slider all the way to the left. Click Apply.
This clears existing strokes and turns the canvas black. Before you paint
strokes on the black canvas, you may notice that some brushes seem to
have no effect. If this occurs, it’s because the paint is black or because it
is transparent enough to prevent the color from showing.
Modifying the colors of a preset brush
In the following steps, you alter leaf and bud colors of a preset brush; fern.mel.
TIP When using the fern.mel brush, if any of the sliders do not appear, or appear
cut off on the right, you need to increase the screen display resolution setting on
your monitor to 1280 X 1024.
To change the color of a brush
1 In the Visor (Brush > Get Brush), click the fern.mel preset brush in the
plants folder.
2 Paint on the canvas to see the default display.
Because fern.mel uses tubes, ferns grow along the path of your stroke.
3 Resize the brush to a Global Scale of about 0.5 (Brush > Edit Template
Brush) and paint on the canvas.
4 On the toolbar, click the L1 color box (Leaf Color 1), select a shade of
blue from the Color Chooser, and leave the Color Chooser open.
L1 sets the color of the tips of the leaves.
5 Click the L2 color box (Leaf Color 2) and select a shade of red from the
Color Chooser.
L2 sets the color of the base of the leaves.
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