•   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 mode’s 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 tool’s 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%.
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