User Manual

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Brush Controls
Brush Shape
The brush shape buttons select the brush tip shape. Except for the single pixel shape,
you can modify the size of the brush shape in the viewer by holding down the
Command or Ctrl key while dragging the mouse.
Soft Brush: The Soft Brush type is a circular brush tip with soft edges.
Circular Brush: A Circular Brush is a brush tip shape with hard edges.
Image Brush: The Image Brush allows images from any node in the node tree,
or from a file system, to be used as a brush tip.
Single Pixel Brush: The Single Pixel Brush is perfect for fine detail work, creating a
brush tip precisely one pixel in size. No anti-aliasing is applied to the single pixel brush.
Square Brush: A Square Brush is a brush tip with hard edges.
Vary Size
Vary size settings change the stroke size based on speed or a pressure-sensitive pen
and tablet.
Constant: The brush tip remains a constant size over the stroke.
With Pressure: The stroke size varies with the actual applied pressure.
With Velocity: The stroke size varies with the speed of painting. The faster the stroke,
the thinner it is.
Vary Opacity
Vary opacity settings change the stroke opacity based on speed or a pressure-
sensitive pen and tablet.
Constant: The brush tip remains at a constant transparency setting over
the entire stroke.
With Pressure: The stroke transparency varies with the applied pressure.
With Velocity: The stroke transparency varies with the speed of painting.
The faster the stroke, the more transparent it is.
Softness
Use this control to increase or decrease the Softness of a soft brush.
Image Source
When using the Image Source brush type, select between three possible source
brush images.
Node: The image source is derived from the output of a node in the node tree.
Drag the node into the Inspector’s Source node input field to set the source.
Clip: The image source is derived from an image or sequence on disk.
Any file supported by Fusion’s Loader or MediaIn node can be used.
Brush: Select an image to use as a brush from the menu. Images located in
the Fusion > Brushes directory are used to populate the menu.
Color Space
When the Fill tool is selected, a Color Space menu selects the color space when
sampling colors around the Fill tool center for inclusion in the fill range.
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