Exploring Painting

You can paint on the canvas or on a layer above the canvas. When you select a layer on the Layer palette, that layer becomes the target for your brush strokes. When you have an active selection, painting is confined to the selection.

You mark the canvas by selecting the Brush tool and dragging in the document window with a brush variant that applies colors or images. Each time you drag, you create a brush stroke.

When you use complex brush variants, you may see a delay before the mark appears. When you experience a delay, you can queue up strokes, without losing any stroke data.

Freehand vs. Straight-Line Drawing

You can draw unconstrained lines by using the Brush tool, or you can draw straight lines by using the Line tool. The right tool can be selected in the Tools palette.

With the Brush tool, you drag to create strokes.

With the Line tool, you click to create the first point and then click or drag to create a stroke.

To draw freehand lines

· In the Tools palette, click the Brush tool

· Choose a brush from the Brush palette.

· Drag on the canvas.

To draw straight lines

· In the Tools palette, click the Line tool

· Choose a brush from the Brush palette.

· Do one of the following:

· Click the point where you want to end the line.

· Drag to place the end point exactly where you want it.

· To continue drawing from the second point, enabled on the property bar the Polygon check box, and click or drag to create additional points on the canvas.

· To end a line, do one of the following:

· Press Enter to close the polygon. The final point is connected to the original with a straight line.

· Disable on the property bar the Polygon check box.

You can use shortcut keys to toggle between the tools. Press

to choose the Brush tool, or

to choose the Line tool.

Undoing Strokes

If you apply a stroke, but want it to be less opaque or faded. You can use the Undo command to remove it. You can repeat the command to remove previous strokes.

To undo a stroke

· Choose Main Window menu -> Edit -> Undo.

You can also undo a stroke by pressing

on the keyboard.

Letting Color Pool

The Brush tool allow color to build up or pool when you move a brush slowly. Pooling creates very realistic strokes, especially with airbrushes. You can also cause media to pool by simply touching and pausing with the selected brush. You can enable this feature in the Brush Palette.

To enable color pooling

· Choose Main Window menu -> Window -> Show Brush.

· On the Brush palette, click the tab Advanced.

· Enable the Continuous Time Deposition

check box.

When the Continuous Time Deposition

check box is disabled, you must move the brush (even just slightly) to cause color to be deposited.

With an airbrush, paint pools when you pause a stroke for 4 seconds (left), 2 seconds (middle), and 1 second (right).