User Guide

The Brush Creator160
Continuous Time Deposition
Continuous Time Deposition controls
whether you must move a brush
before media is applied. With
Continuous Time Deposition
enabled, media begins flowing at the
first touch.
Brushes that use rendered dab types
take full advantage of this setting,
causing media to pool realistically
when the stroke is slowed or paused.
Brushes that use dab-based dab types
require a full pause in the stroke
before media begins to pool. You use
Continuous Time Deposition mostly
with airbrush tools.
With Continuous Time Deposition
disabled, you must move a brush
before media flows.
To set Continuous Time
Deposition:
1 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, click Spacing.
2 Enable the Continuous Time
Deposition check box.
Cubic Interpolation
Cubic Interpolation smooths jagged
brush strokes by adding points to dab
paths, primarily for brushes that use
dab-based dab types. Unlike
Damping, which uses mathematical
calculations to smooth jagged edges,
Cubic Interpolation inserts additional
points into dab paths, which are used
to replot brush strokes.
Cubic Interpolation is best for dab-
based dab types, while Damping is
best for rendered dab types.
To set smooth strokes by adding
path points:
1 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, click Spacing.
2 Move the Points slider to the right
to add points and even out jagged
strokes. Move it left to decrease the
number of additional points.
Setting Angle Controls
Squeeze
Squeeze controls the shape of the
brush dab. Squeezing a brush changes
it from round to elliptical. You use
Squeeze controls with Circular and
Captured dab types.
The Squeeze slider controls the shape of the
brush dab. Top=100%, bottom=25%.
Examples of Squeeze used to create a
Calligraphy effect with a Pen brush.