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# Airbrush

## Overview

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

## Airbrush Tool Options

Airbrush Settings

Opacity

  The Opacity slider sets the transparency level for the paint. A higher opacity setting results in more opaque paint and a lower setting results in more transparent paint.

Mode

  The Mode dropdown list provides a selection of paint application modes. A list of these modes can be found in the glossary .

Incremental

  The Incremental checkbox actiavtes incremental paint mode for the tool. More information about incremental mode can be found in the glossary

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.

### Additional Information

Default Keyboard Shortcut: A

Key modifiers:

- Ctrl changes the tool to a Color Picker that sets the foreground color.

- Alt changes the tool to a Color Picker that sets the background color.

- Shift is used to create straight lines.

- Shift-Ctrl is used to create straight lines that are constrained to 15 degree absolute angles.

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