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
arent 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