Painting two-toned “neon” strokes You can paint a neon-tube stroke, with the foreground color inside and the background color outside, with the Neon tool. Use the Glow setting in the Brushes palette to adjust the color ratio. Painting modes aren’t available with the Neon tool. If you are using a pressure-sensitive tablet , double-click the Neon tool to open its dialog box. You can make the stylus pressure affect brush size by turning on the Size in the “Pressure Varies” area and clicking OK. To paint with the Neon tool, follow the basic procedure in “Using painting tools” on page 31.597. Copying areas with the Rubber Stamp tool You can make a copy (“clone”) of an image area with the Rubber Stamp tool. This tool is very useful for retouching scanned photo- graphs, removing lines and scratches, and hiding seams when com- positing images. 1 To configure options for the Rubber Stamp tool, double-click the tool to open its dialog box. Adjust the settings and click OK. •   To fade the brush size or opacity of the cloned image, turn on the appropriate option in the Fade area and enter a num- ber of pixels in the “Fade within” text box to tell Canvas the distance in which to complete the effect. •   Select an option in the Style pop-up menu; see “Choosing a cloning style” on page 31.611. •   With a pressure-sensitive tablet, you can make the stylus pressure affect size and opacity by turning on the appropri- ate option in the “Pressure Varies” area. 2 Select the Rubber Stamp tool and click an image with the hand pointer ( ) to put it in edit mode, if necessary. 3 Choose a brush shape, mode, and opacity setting in the Brushes palette; see “Creating paint objects with painting tools” on page 31.588. 4 Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) in the image to set the reference point for sampling an image area. 5 Drag in the image to paint a copy of the sampled area around the reference point. Neon tool Rubber Stamp tool Rubber Stamp pointer with Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) pressed Rubber Stamp pointer without modifier key
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