3.8. Airbrush Tool
| 3. Brush Tools |

### 3.8. Airbrush Tool

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Revision $Revision: 2562 $ | 2006-02-05 | j.h

Figure 13.61. The Airbrush tool in Toolbox

The Airbrush tool emulates a traditional airbrush. This tool is suitable for painting soft areas of color.

#### 3.8.1. Activate the Tool

You can activate the Airbrush tool in several ways :

- From the image-menu, through : Tools → Paint Tools → Airbrush

- By clicking on the tool icon: in the Toolbox,

- By using the A keyboard shortcut.

#### 3.8.2. Key modifiers (Defaults)

Ctrl

  Ctrl changes the airbrush to a Color Picker.

Shift

  Shift places the airbrush into straight line mode. Holding Shift while clicking Button 1 will generate a straight line. Consecutive clicks will continue drawing straight lines that originate from the end of the last line.

#### 3.8.3. Options

Figure 13.62. Airbrush options

The available tool options can be accessed by double-clicking the airbrush Tool icon.

Rate

  The Rate slider adjusts the speed of color application that the airbrush paints. A higher setting will produce darker brush strokes in a shorter amount of time.

Pressure

  This slider controls the amount of color that the airbrush paints. A higher setting here will result in darker strokes.

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