User Guide

CHAPTER 8. TOOLS 75
8.29.1 Overview
The paintbrush tool paints fuzzy brush strokes. All strokes are rendered using
the current brush.
See also: Brush Selection.
8.29.2 Paintbrush Options
Paintbrush Settings
Opacity The Opacity slider sets the transparency level for the paint. A higher opacity
setting results in more opaque paint and a lower setting results in more transpar-
ent paint.
Mode The Mode dropdown list provides a selection of paint application modes. A list
of these modes can be found in the glossary.
Incremental The Incremental checkbox actiavtes incremental paint mode for the tool.
More information about incremental mode can be found in the glossary
Pressure Sensitivity The Pressure Sensitivity section sets the sensitivity levels for in-
put devices that support this option.
Fade Out This option sets the stroke to fade out after the specified distance. The stroke
will fade to transparency at the completion of the set distance.
Gradient The Gradient setting toggles the use of the currently selected gradient in
stead of the current foreground color. There are four ways that the gradient can
be rendered.
• Once Forward: Renders the gradient once during the stroke. It is painted
in a forward direction. The entire color sequence of the gradient will be
rendered within the distance set.
• Once Backward: Renders the gradient once during the stroke. It is painted
in a reverse order of colors. The entire color sequence of the gradient will
be rendered within the distance set.
• Loop Sawtooth: Renders the gradient repeatedly. At each expiry of the
distance that has been set, the gradient will begin rerendering from the be-
ginning.
• Loop Triangle: Renders the gradient repeatedly. At each expiry of the
distance that has been set, the gradient will reverse direction and render in
that direction until the expiry of the distance once more. At this point, it will
begin again until the stroke is complete.
Additional Information
Default Keyboard Shortcut:


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P
Key modifiers:
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Ctrl changes the paintbrush to a Color Picker that will set the foreground color.