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If a more bespoke brush tip is required, you can also customize your own brush

tip and save it in its own user-defined category. (See PhotoPlus help for details.)

An important factor when applying brush strokes is the level of opacity applied

to the brush. This attribute affects brush strokes significantly when the stroke is

applied onto already transparent standard layers. The greater the opacity the

more opaque the brush stroke, and vice versa. Experiment to achieve the right

combination of opacity and color for your brush strokes.

To use the Paintbrush or Pencil tool:

1. From the Tools toolbar's Brush Tools flyout, select

the Paintbrush Tool or Pencil Tool.

2. Choose a brush tip preset on the Brush Tip tab. If you've picked a Basic

brush, set a brush color (i.e. the foreground color) from the Color tab

before painting.

3. (Optional) Change brush tip's attributes, if necessary, on the Context

toolbar. These changes do not affect the brush presets present in the Brush

Tip tab.

4. Drag the cursor on the active layer, holding the left mouse button down to

paint in the foreground color.

Brush options

The Brush Options dialog, accessible from the Context toolbar's Brush option,

lets you customize a brush or define properties for a new one. As you vary the

settings, you can see the effect of each change in the preview window.

Painting using pen tablets

Brush strokes can be applied directly to the page by using your mouse or, if

available, a pen tablet; the latter method is ideally suited for applying pressure-

sensitive strokes to your project. PhotoPlus supports pressure sensitivity, with

tablet calibration and key assignment possible directly from within the program

(via Pressure Studio).

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