User Guide

The Brush Creator150
(direction) and angle (tilt) affect
the eccentricity of the resulting
conic section. The Feature slider in
the Size area controls the size of
the individual droplets of media.
Set Feature too high and you
might get undesirable artifacts.
Holding down Option + Shift
(Mac OS) or Alt + Shift
(Windows) when painting reverses
the spray direction.
• Pixel Airbrush (rendered)—You
use these dabs to create brushes
that work like airbrushes. Brushes
that use Pixel Airbrush dabs
cannot use the Feature setting to
control the size of individual
droplets of media. Holding down
Option + Shift (Mac OS) or Alt
+ Shift (Windows) when painting
reverses the spray direction.
• Line Airbrush (rendered)—You
use these dabs to create brushes
that work like airbrushes. Brushes
that use Line Airbrush dabs spray
lines instead of droplets of media.
Holding down Option + Shift
(Mac OS) or Alt + Shift
(Windows) when painting reverses
the spray direction.
• Projected (rendered)—You use
Projected dabs to create brushes
that act like airbrushes. Brushes
created with Projected dabs work
similarly to the airbrush from
previous versions of the
application, but react to bearing
and angle data. They create conic
sections with an overall softness.
Holding down Option + Shift
(Mac OS) or Alt + Shift
(Windows) when painting reverses
the spray direction.
• Rendered (rendered)—You use
Rendered dabs to create brushes
that conform the source to a stroke.
Use the Source pop-up menu to
control what is mapped into the
computed brush strokes. For more
information, see “Source” on
page 154.
• Liquid Ink—You use Liquid Ink
dabs to create liquid paint effects
that simulate traditional ink-based
media. You can give a Liquid Ink
brush stroke the appearance of
height by applying lighting effects.
There are five types of Liquid Ink
dab types: Liquid Ink Camel Hair,
Liquid Ink Flat, Liquid Ink
Palette Knife, Liquid Ink Bristle
Spray, and Liquid Ink Airbrush.
• Water Color—You use Water
Color dabs to create brushes that
work like water color brushes. The
colors flow and mix and absorb
into the paper. You can control the
wetness and evaporation rate of the
paper. There are five types of Water
Color dab types: Water Color
Camel Hair, Water Color Flat,
Water Color Palette Knife, Water
Color Bristle Spray, and Water
Color Airbrush.
To choose a dab type:
1 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, click General.
2 Choose a dab type from the Dab
Type pop-up menu.