Brushes Tool Bar
During editing bitmaps you use only color properties, and a new Brush Tool Bar which will appear on your workplace.
You can select color from Color &
Texture, Color Space
or Color Memory.
The color Space is especially useful for picking out different tones.
Another way is to Pick a color from anywhere in the image with the Color Pick tool.
The Color Pick on the Brush Tool Bar does the
same thing as the one on the main Tool bar.
Brushes
You have many different predefined brushes in the Brush library. There are various Airbrushes, Artistic Brushes, 3D Brushes and Nozzles and you can create your own brushes and also new libraries.
Brush
Mode
The Brush Mode determines how the Paint color affects the color in the Image.
Normal
The most commonly used brush mode, Paint color will simply paint
over the image
Multiply
Multiplies the Image color and the Brush color. The result is
darker. Painting with Black will produce black, painting with
white will leave the Image colors unchanged. All colors in between
will darken the image.
Difference
Subtracts the Image Color from the Brush color or Brush color from
the Image color, whichever is brighter.
Screen
Works just the opposite to Multiply. The result is lighter. Painting
with black will leave the Image unchanged, painting with white
will produce white. All the colors in between will lighten the
image.
Overlay
Overlay will colorize (mix) the Image with the Brush color. It
uses either Multiply or Screen which depend on the brightness of
the Image color in the area that you are modifying. This is a
fun way to colorize an image. If you are looking for a more optically
realistic colorizing method, use the Colorize brush from the Retouch
Collection.
Darken
The resulting color is Brush Color or Image Color - whichever
is darker. Painting with white will have no effect since the pixels
from the Image will be always darker. In other words, the image
color will dictate the resulting color if the brush color is lighter
than the image color.
Lighten
Similar to darken, but the resulting color will be the lighter
of the two (brush or image). Painting with black will have no
effect and Image pixels will always be lighter, so the resulting
color will be the one within the Image.
Hard Light
This works similarly to Overlay, it Multiplies or Screens the color,
but the decision between modes is dependent on the the Brush color;
while in Overlay it is dependent on the Image color. If the Brush
color is lighter than 50% gray, the image will be Screened. If
the Brush color is darker than 50% gray , the image will be multiplied.
Soft Light
This darkens or lightens colors, depending on the the Brush color.
If the Brush color is lighter than 50% gray, the image will be
lightened. If the Brush color is darker than 50% gray , the image
will be darkened. While Hard Light can be pure black or white,
Soft Light can't produce pure black or white, it will just darken
or lighten.
If Lighter
The Brush Color will be applied only to areas where the Brush
Color is lighter than the Image Color. Therefore this will
paint only in areas darker than the Brush color.
If Darker
The Brush color will be applied only to areas where the Brush
Color is darker than the Image Color. In other words, this will
paint over areas lighter than the Brush color.
Note: The mode settings will also work for Image Nozzles and Artistic
brushes.
Brush Intensity (Opacity)
The Intensity (Opacity) slider controls the Brush Opacity. An Opacity setting of 0% is completely transparent, and an Opacity setting of 100% is opaque. With a combination of Opacity and modes, you can control various aspects of the mode, allowing almost infinite effects.
