load brushes (see To load brushes from a file on
page 31.618)
Painting opacity
Painting opacity affects the intensity of painting. You can adjust this
setting in the floating Brushes palette for the following painting tools:
Eraser, Marker, Paintbrush, Bucket, Blend, and Rubber Stamp.
Painting opacity can be set from 1 to 100%. Higher opacity makes
the color you apply more opaque. Lower opacity makes color appear
more transparent.
Painting opacity works together with painting modes (described
next). In general, reducing opacity reduces the strength of the painted
color and the effect of a tool.
For example, if you use the Paintbrush tool to apply black at 100%
opacity in Normal mode, black replaces the original color wherever
you paint. At 50% opacity, the strength of the black is reduced, so it
mixes with the underlying color. If you also use a different painting
mode, the strength of the modes effect is reduced.
To set painting opacity: Select a painting tool that uses the
painting opacity setting. In the floating Brushes palette, drag the
Opacity slider or enter a percentage in the text box.
Canvas remembers each tools painting opacity setting. For example,
if you use the Blend tool at 30% opacity and then use the Paintbrush
tool at 100% opacity, the setting changes back to 30% when you
select the Blend tool again.
Note: The Opacity slider in the floating Brushes palette affects subse-
quent brush strokes by the current painting tool only. It is not the
same as the Opacity sliders in the Toolbox and the Transparency pal-
ette, which are linked and control overall opacity of selected objects.
Painting modes
You can use various painting modes when you paint and edit images.
Painting modes can create special effects and let you control color
mixing and the tonal range affected by painting.
Tip
To quickly change the opacity
setting, you can press a num-
ber key; 1 equals 10%, 2
equals 20%, 3 equals 30%,
etc. 0 equals a setting of
100%.