Smear


Smear can be used to drag parts of an image around, or can be used with subtlety to slightly smooth off rough parts of an image. Click the icon in the toolbar once to turn it on, and once more to turn it off.

The type of smear depends on:

The brush.

The pressure.

The drawing mode.

The 'harder', the brush the more you will smear. If the brush is 'soft', ie, you have the pressure set low, you will get more of a smudge effect. To blur things together, you could use the airbrush at low pressure in dotted mode. To distort a picture, you would set the pressure to 100%, and use Continous line mode.

Load 'Girl.JPG' from the Graphics/ExampleImages drawer. Turn smear on, select the Airbrush, set brush pressure to 100%, and size to about 20-30. Click on the corner of the mouth, and slowly curl the pointer upwards, making the mouth extend into a smile. Move the mouse slowly when in dotted mode or you may find that you ruin the effect.

Scribble in Pencil or Chalk Pastel on a blank page and FIX it. Select the airbrush, set brush pressure to 10-20%, and size to 20-30. Rub over the scribble, this can give the same effect as being smudged with a finger.

IMPORTANT:

Smear works directly onto the 24-Bit image data, this means that you can't rub it out in the normal way. If you want to be able to undo a smear, make sure undo is enabled before hand in the settings menu, then after smearing press 'u' or select 'Undo/Redo Smear' from the Options menu.

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