Brush

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Brush settings.

Radius
The radius of the brush in pixels.
Strength
How powerful the brush is when applied.
Pressure Sensitivity (hand and bulged in blue line icon)
The toggle to the right of the following three settings will enable or disable tablet pressure sensitivity to control how strong the effect is.
Blend

Set the way the paint is applied over the underlying color. See Color Blend Modes.

  • Add Alpha: makes the image more opaque where painted.
  • Erase Alpha: makes the image transparent where painted, allowing background colors and lower-level textures to show through. As you « paint », the false checkerboard background will be revealed. Using a table pen’s eraser end will toggle on this mode.

Astuce

In order to see the effects of the Erase and Add Alpha mix modes in the Image Editor, you must enable the alpha channel display by clicking the Display Alpha or the Alpha-Only button. Transparent (no alpha) areas will then show a checkered background.

Color Picker

Color

The color of the brush. See Sélecteur de couleurs.

Press S on any part of the image to sample that color and set it as the brush color. Hold Ctrl while painting to temporally paint with the secondary color.

Flip (cycle icon) X
Swaps the primary and secondary colors.

Gradient

A gradient can be used as a color source.

Gradient Colors
The Widget Color Ramp to define the gradient colors.
Mode
Pressure
Will choose a color from the color ramp according to the stylus pressure.
Clamp
Will alter the color along the stroke and as specified by Gradient Spacing option. With Clamp it uses the last color of the color ramp after the specified gradient.
Repeat
Similar to Clamp. After the last color it resets the color to the first color in the color ramp and repeats the pattern.

Color Palette

Color Palettes are a way of storing a brush’s color so that it can be used at a later time. This is useful when working with several colors at once.

Palette
A Menu data-block to select a palette.
New +
Adds the current brush’s primary Color to the palette.
Delete -
Removes the currently selected color from the palette.
Color List
Each color that belongs to the palette is presented in a list. Clicking on a color will change the brush’s primary Color to that color.

Options

Accumulate
This will allow a stroke to accumulate on itself, just like an airbrush would do.
Adjust Strength for Spacing
Attenuate the brush strength according to spacing.
Affect Alpha
When this is disabled, it locks (prevents changes to) the alpha channel while painting (3D only).

Tiling

Reference

Editor:Image Editor
Mode:Paint Mode
Menu:Sidebar ‣ Tools ‣ Tiling

Wraps the stroke to the other side of the image as your brush moves off the opposite side of the canvas. Very handy for making seamless textures.

X
left/right
Y
top/bottom