The Airbrush tool emulates a traditional airbrush. This tool is suitable
for painting soft areas of color.
3.8.1. Activating the Tool
You can activate the Airbrush tool in several ways :
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From the image-menu, through :
→ →
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By clicking on the tool icon:
in the Toolbox,
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By using the A keyboard shortcut.
3.8.2. Key modifiers (Defaults)
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Ctrl
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Ctrl changes the airbrush to a
Color Picker.
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Shift
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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.
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
→ → which opens the option window of the selected tool.
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Mode; Opacity; Brush; Scale; Brush Dynamics; Fade out;
Apply Jitter; Use color from gradient
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![[Note]](images/note.png)
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Note |
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See the Brush Tools
Overview for a description of tool options that apply to many or
all brush tools.
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Rate
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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.
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Pressure
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This slider controls the amount of color that the airbrush paints.
A higher setting here will result in darker strokes.
