3.8. Airbrush Tool
| 3. Penselverktyg |

### 3.8. Airbrush Tool

Figur 13.64. 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. Aktivera verktyget

You can activate the Airbrush tool in several ways :

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

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

- By using the A keyboard shortcut.

#### 3.8.2. Tangentmodifierare (standardvärden)

Ctrl

  Ctrl changes the airbrush to a Color Picker.

Skift

  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. Alternativ

Figur 13.65. Airbrush options

Normally, tool options are displayed in a window attached under the Toolbox as soon as you activate a tool. If they are not, you can access them from the image menu bar through Windows → Dockable Windows → Tool Options which opens the option window of the selected tool.

Mode; Opacity; Brush; Scale; Brush Dynamics; Fade out; Apply Jitter; Use color from gradient

  | Notera
  See the Brush Tools Overview for a description of tool options that apply to many or all brush tools.

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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