Brushes and stroke settings

Seven brushes

Brush	Good for
Soft round	Blending, blush, shading. The default.
Hard round	Crisp shapes and spots.
Square	Stripes and blocky edges.
Pen	Clean outlines that grow in from a fine point.
Spatter	Freckles and speckles.
Fur	Pet texture, in soft strands.
Sparkle	Glints and four-point stars.

The Square brush

Square paints with a square tip, so strokes get flat ends and sharp sides. Use it with QuickShape for clean boxes and stripes: a rectangle comes out with sharp, mitred corners.

Stroke settings

• Size: how big the brush is.
• Opacity: how strongly each stroke covers.
• Soft: how far the edge fades. Each brush starts at its own value.
• Taper (Pen): how long the stroke takes to grow in from a fine point.
• Spread (Spatter, Sparkle): how far the dots scatter off your line.
• Messy (Fur): how much each strand turns at random.
• Colour mix (Spatter, Fur, Sparkle): a little random colour change in every dab.

Soft and each brush’s own settings are remembered per brush until you close the app. Size and Opacity are shared by all brushes.

Advanced

Turn on Advanced for more control. Which rows appear depends on the brush.

• Steady: the brush trails your hand to smooth out shaky lines. Pen starts at 40%, Fur at 15%.
• Taper: how long a stroke takes to grow in at its start.
• Spacing: the gap between dabs, on Spatter, Fur and Sparkle.
• Rotation: Fixed, Follow (turns with the stroke) or Random, with Angle and Turn jitter.
• Size jitter: a random size for each dab.
• Scatter: a random sideways nudge for each dab.

Reset brush puts the brush’s own Soft and its other settings back. It keeps your Size and Opacity.