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Exiting Paint
When exiting Paint, you may keep or discard the changes you have made to the front clip. Click Exit and
select an option.
To:Select:
Keep the changes you made to the front clip. The modified front clip appears in the
Viewing panel.
Exit
Keep only the current frame of the front clip. When this option is selected, a Confirm button
appears to the right of the canvas. Click Confirm to keep only the current frame of the
front clip. The current frame appears in the Viewing panel.
Keep One
Quit Paint without saving changes to the front clip. When this option is selected, a Confirm
button appears to the right of the canvas. Click Confirm to quit without saving your changes,
or click elsewhere to cancel.
Cancel
About Canvas Mode
When you first open Paint, you are in Canvas mode. In Canvas mode, you can use brushes to modify your
images. Brushes apply colour, filters, and Special Effects media to the image on the canvas. The brush cursor
appears as a green cross surrounded by a circle when placed over the canvas. Canvas mode features are not
available from multiple menus, such Canvas, Geometry, Fill, and Roll.
You can also paint on the canvas using geometric shapes to define the path of the brush.
To ease the painting of canvas edges, you can roll the canvas in the image window.
To paint on the canvas:
1 In the Paint menu, click Canvas.
If the scratch pad is covering this button, swipe down to hide the scratch pad.
2 From the Paint Mode controls, click Paint.
3 Set a colour in the Current Colour pot. See
Selecting Colours (page 871).
4 Select a brush from the Brushes window. See
Selecting a Brush (page 875).
5 Set the brush attributes and modes in the Brush Attributes fields. See
Brush Attributes (page 881) and
Brush Attribute Modes (page 885).
6 Set the brush opacity in the Opacity field. Set the opacity to 100% to apply a fully opaque colour.
7 Stroke the brush over the canvas. To paint straight horizontal and vertical lines, press Shift and drag
the brush up and down or left and right.
8 Click Undo to erase the strokes applied to the canvas since the last time you zoomed, panned, or
changed a brush attribute.
Selecting a Brush
A number of predefined brush types are available in Paint including round, square, and elliptical brushes of
various sizes and edge softness. The cursor has the same appearance regardless of which brush type you use.
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