User Guide

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Using a Stylus or Mouse . . . . . . . . . 102
Selecting a Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Brush Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Where You Can Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Marking the Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Painting with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Painting with Gradients and Patterns 112
Painting with Airbrushes . . . . . . . . . 114
Recording and Playing Back Strokes . 117
Filling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Using Water Color
The Water Color Layer . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Working with Water Color Variants . 126
Water Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Digital Water Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Using Liquid Ink
The Liquid Ink Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Impasto
The Impasto Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Creating an Impasto Effect . . . . . . . . 136
Adjusting Impasto Depth . . . . . . . . . 136
Adjusting Surface Lighting . . . . . . . . 137
Creating Custom Impasto Brushes . . 138
Blending Impasto with Other Layers . 141
The Brush Creator
Customizing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Using the Brush Creator . . . . . . . . . . 143
The Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Using the Randomizer . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Using the Transposer . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Using the Stroke Designer . . . . . . . . 147
Setting Size Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Setting Spacing Controls . . . . . . . . . 158
Setting Angle Controls . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Setting Bristle Controls . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Expression Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Setting Well Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Setting Rake Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Setting Random Controls . . . . . . . . . 169
Setting Mouse Controls . . . . . . . . . . 172
Setting Cloning Controls . . . . . . . . . 172
Setting Impasto Controls . . . . . . . . . 173
Setting Image Hose Controls . . . . . . 175
Setting Airbrush Controls . . . . . . . . . 175
Setting Water Controls . . . . . . . . . . 176
Setting Liquid Ink Controls . . . . . . . . 179
Setting Digital Water Color Controls . 182
Managing Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Cloning and Tracing
Cloning Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Cloning a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Using Tracing Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Changing Clone Source . . . . . . . . . . 190
Painting in the Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Using Auto Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Using Auto Van Gogh . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Point-to-Point Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Multi-Point Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Turning Other Brushes into Cloners . 197
Using a Selection while Cloning . . . . 199
Repeating Source Imagery . . . . . . . . 201
Filling with Transformed Cloning . . . 201
Using Selections
Working with Selections . . . . . . . . . 203
Creating Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Converting Selections to and from
Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Saving Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Loading Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Combining Selections Using
Boolean Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Transforming Selections . . . . . . . . . . 214
Editing Path-Based Selections . . . . . . 214
Using the Selection Portfolio . . . . . . 217
Using Alpha Channels
Understanding Alpha Channels . . . . 219
Creating Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Managing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Editing Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Using Layers and Layer Masks
Layer Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Working with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Creating Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Saving Files Containing Layers . . . . . 234
Deleting Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Managing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Editing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240