User Manual

Channel
When the Fill tool is selected, a Channel menu selects which color channel is used in
the fill paint. For example, with Alpha selected, the fill occurs on contiguous pixels of
the Alpha channel.
Apply Controls
Apply Mode
The Apply Modes are buttons that change a brush’s painting functionality.
 Color: The Color Apply Mode paints simple colored strokes. When used in conjunction
with an image brush, it can also be used to tint the image.
 Clone: The Clone Apply Mode copies an area from the same image using adjustable
positions and time offsets. This mode can also copy portions of one image into another
image. Any image from the node tree can be used as the source image.
 Emboss: The Emboss Apply Mode embosses the portions of the image covered by the
brush stroke.
 Erase: Erase reveals the underlying image through all other strokes, effectively erasing
portions of the strokes beneath it without actually destroying the strokes.
 Merge: This Apply Mode effectively merges the brush onto the image. This mode
behaves in much the same way as the Color Apply Mode but has no color controls. It is
best suited for use with the image brush type.
 Smear: Smear the image using the direction and strength of the brushstroke as a guide.
 Stamp: Stamps the brush onto the image, completely ignoring any Alpha channel
or transparency information. This mode is best suited for applying decals to the
target image.
 Wire: This Wire Removal Mode is used to remove wires, rigging, and other small
elements in the frame by sampling adjacent pixels and draw them in toward the stroke.
Stroke Controls
The stroke controls contain parameters that adjust the entire stroke of paint as well as
control it over time.
 Size: This control adjusts the size of the brush when the brush type is set to either
Soft Brush or Circle. The diameter of the brush is drawn in the viewer as a small circle
surrounding the mouse pointer. The size can also be adjusted interactively in the
viewer by holding the Command or Ctrl key while dragging the mouse pointer.
 Spacing: The Spacing slider determines the distance between dabs (samples used
to draw a continuous stroke along the underlying vector shape). Increasing this value
increases the density of the stroke, whereas decreasing this value causes the stroke to
assume the appearance of a dotted line.
 Stroke Animation: The Stroke Animation menu provides several pre-built animation
effects that can be applied to a paint stroke. This menu appears only for vector strokes
like Stroke and Polyline Stroke.
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All Frames: This default displays the stroke for all frames of the image connected to
the orange background input of the Paint node.
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Limited Duration: This exists on the number of frames specified by the Duration
slider.
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