User Manual

Painting and Drawing 119
To apply a color from the Swatches tab:
• Select any gallery thumbnail then paint, draw, fill, etc. Note that a
thumbnail click will change the Color tab's foreground color.
Painting
The Paintbrush Tool and Pencil
Tool on the Tools toolbar are the basic
tools for painting and drawing freehand
lines on the active layer. They work on
Background and standard layers, but not on
text layers or shape layers. The tools work
by changing pixels on the layer.
The Paintbrush Tool will always apply antialiasing to its brush strokes without
exception. For the most part this is ideal as brush edges will appear very
smooth—irrespective of the Hardness setting of your current brush. However,
how can a hard-edged brush effect be achieved? This is possible with the Pencil
Tool, a hard-edged brush tool which is used just like the Paintbrush Tool but
always with the hard-edging.
The Brush Tip tab hosts a
comprehensive collection of
brush presets grouped into
various categories; each
category can be switched to
via a drop-down list and
displays a gallery. Note that
each sample clearly shows
the brush tip and stroke; the
number indicates the brush
diameter. The brush tip
determines the thickness and
many other properties of the
painted line.