Paintbrush

Overview

The paintbrush tool paints fuzzy brush strokes. All strokes are rendered using the current brush.

See also: Brush Selection .

Paintbrush Options

Paintbrush Settings

Incremental

Incremental mode paints each brush stroke directly onto the active layer. Without this option set, there is a canvas buffer that is composited with the active layer.

This option is not available if Gradient is toggled on.

Pressure Sensitivity

The Pressure Sensitivity section sets the sensitivity levels for input 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 beginning.

  • 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

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