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Selecting Brush Settings options in Effect Controls (PB only)


    The Effect Controls window organizes settings for Vector Paint, beginning with Brush Settings for painting. Use this window to specify:

    The first three controls on the left column can be changed in two ways. You can click the underlined value to open a dialog box in which you can type a specific value, or you can drag across the value to change it, dragging left to decrease it and right to increase it.

    Note: If you select strokes with different settings (such as Color, Radius, Brush Type, and so forth), a question mark [-?-] appears for those option in the Effect Controls window. To apply a single setting to all the selected strokes, select a new value, option, or color, as appropriate.

    Tip iconWhen you drag to change Radius, Feather, or Opacity values, hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) to reduce the size of the increments. To change the value by larger increments, hold down Shift as you drag.

    Radius

    Controls the size of the brush or eraser.

    Feather

    Controls the softness of brush or eraser edges (but does not affect the airbrush).

    Tip iconTo quickly set your brush Radius and Feather amounts as you paint, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and click anywhere in the Composition window; then drag in or out to resize the brush.When you release the Ctrl or Command key, you can then drag in or out to resize the feather.

    Opacity

    Controls the transparency of the paint or erasures.

    Brush Type

    Shows the brush type you selected in the Vector Paint toolbar in the Composition window. For more information, see Specifying a Brush type (PB only).

    Color

    This Color swatch represents the paint color used to draw strokes. Select a new color by clicking the Color swatch and then using the Color Picker, or by using the Eyedropper to sample a color from the desktop.

    When one or more strokes of the same color are selected, this swatch displays the Color of those strokes. You can change the color of the selected strokes. For information about the Eyedropper, see Editing your paint work (PB only).

    Color Clone

    When Color Clone is turned on, the brush behaves like a combination eyedropper and brush. The color of the stroke is determined by the pixels at the position where the stroke begins. The Color swatch in the Effect Controls Brush Settings displays the new sampled color. When you begin another stroke, a new group of pixels is sampled and used to color that stroke.

    The Color Clone affects strokes only while you draw; it has no effect on an already completed stroke.This is the only Brush Setting you can't apply after drawing. Clicking either the Eyedropper or Color swatch turns off the Color Clone feature.