User Guide

CHAPTER 17. GLOSSARY 189
posited with the active layer.
The two images above were created using a brush with spacing set to sixty. The
image on the left shows non-incremental painting and the image on the right
shows the difference that incremental painting can produce. Incremental paint
mode results in each brush application, through the duration of a stroke, being
rendered in addition to any previous brush renderings.
M
Marching Ants The name for the dotted line which delineates a selection.
Modes, layer There are fifteen available layer modes. Selecting a layer mode changes
the way that layer or paint application is viewed based on the layer or layers
beneath it. Layer modes
Normal This is the default layer mode. The layer will be viewed normally.
Dissolve The Dissolve layer mode dissolves the layer into the layer beneath
it. It does so by dispersing pixels. This can best be seen in a close-up
screenshot.
The image on the left illustrates a normal layer mode and the image on the
right shows the same two layers in dissolve mode.
Multiply This mode multiplies the pixel values of the layer with those that are
visible beneath it.
The image on the left illustrates a normal layer mode and the image on the
right shows the same two layers in multiply mode.