3.6. Paintbrush Tool
| 3. Brush Tools |

### 3.6. Paintbrush Tool

Revision History
Revision $Revision: 1756 $ | 2006-02-10 | j.h

Figure 13.27. Paintbrush

The paintbrush tool paints fuzzy brush strokes. All strokes are rendered using the current brush.

#### 3.6.1. Activate Tool

- You can call the Paintbrush Tool in the following order, from the image-menu: Tools/ Paint Tools/Paintbrush .

- The Tool can also be called by clicking the tool icon:

- or by using the P keyboard shortcut.

#### 3.6.2. Key modifiers (Defaults)

Ctrl

  This key changes the paintbrush to a Color Picker.

Shift

  This key places the paintbrush 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.

#### 3.6.3. Options

Figure 13.28. Paintbrush tool options

Overview

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

Opacity; Brush; Pressure Sensibility; Fade Out; Incremental

  See Brush common options.

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

Mode; Color from Gradient

  | Note
  See Brush common options and Painting tools common options

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