| Paint | Mask | Display | Tool Preferences
To display: edit a paint operator and choose Paint Tool Settings from the FX Viewer paint menu, or press 3.
Allows you to pre-set the properties for new shapes. This property editor has the Brush Property Editor and the Flood Fill/Magic Wand Properties Property Editor appended to it. These property editors set the attributes of new paint strokes and new flood fill shapes/magic wand selections
respectively.
Paint
New Shapes
Specifies basic attributes for new color shapes.
You can set one of the following three shape types at a time:
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Draws new shapes as Bezier shapes. Bezier shapes consist of a series of control points, each connected to the next by a smooth or straight Bezier curve.
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Straight Bezier curve shapes resemble polyline shapes since all of the points are connected by straight lines and the points'
handles are hidden.
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Smooth Bezier curve shapes tend to curve at every point. The points' handles can be displayed, allowing you to adjust the
curve.
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Draws new shapes as B-Spline shapes. B-Spline shapes consist of a series of control points, each connected to the next by an interpolated curve. Each point is
assigned a weight value that defines the degree top which it pulls the curve. The higher the weight, the stronger the pull,
and the straighter the curve connecting a point to its two adjacent points.
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Draws new shapes as Polyline shapes. Polyline shapes consist of a series of control points, each connected to the next by a straight line segment.
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Toggles whether new shapes are closed or not. A closed shape's last point is connected to its first point so that the outline goes completely around the fill. An open shape's
last point is not connected to its first point, leaving a gap in the outline. Open shapes with no fill are often used to create
paint strokes with editable points.
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You can set one of the following shape states at a time:
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When activated, only the outline of new shapes is drawn.
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When activated, only the fill of new shapes is drawn.
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When activated, both the outline and the fill of new shapes are drawn.
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Controls the opacity level of new shapes' stroke and fill. The higher the value, the more opaque the shapes.
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Mask
These options control which of an images channels new shapes are painted on, as well as whether new shapes obey the paint
mask.
Paint On
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When active, new shapes are painted on the image's RGB channels.
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When active, new shapes are painted on the image's alpha channel.
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Obey Paint Mask
The paint mask is a matte or grayscale image that defines which areas of an image are paintable, and which areas aren't (sort
of like an obey matte for painting). You can set any operator as the paint mask from the operator's contextual menu.
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When active, parts of the image that correspond to black parts of the mask are protected from new shapes.
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When the Obey Paint Mask > Enable option is activated, activating this option inverts the mask so that parts of the image
that correspond to white parts of the mask are protected from new shapes.
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Display
These options toggle the display of various tools and visual cues for editing strokes and shapes in the FX Viewer.
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Toggles the display of shape points.
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Toggles the display of curves on selected shapes (and unselected shaped if the Unselected Curves option is activated). Curves
are displayed as dashed white outlines around the selected shapes' edges.
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Toggles the display of edit handles for selected Bezier shapes.
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Toggles the display of curves on unselected shapes. Curves are displayed as dashed red outlines around unselected shapes'
edges.
Display of Curves must also be activated for unselected curves to be displayed.
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Toggles the display of lines on shapes. Lines are displayed as straight solid green lines connecting shape points, but not
necessarily following their outlines the way curves do.
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Toggles the display of shape bounding boxes. Bounding boxes are displayed as dashed blue rectangles around selected shapes. Selected shapes also display a bounding box for transformations, so the dashed blue bounding boxes only appear when one of
the point editing tools is active.
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Tool Preferences
These options control various paint tool attributes.
Brush Cursor
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Defines the appearance of the mouse pointer when the Paint Brush tool or the Line tool is activated. no paint cursor is displayed. The regular mouse pointer indicates where new strokes are painted.
the paint cursor is displayed as a small plus sign (+) that you can use as a cross-hairs to paint precisely.
the paint cursor is displayed as a circle the size of the brush stamp.
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When activated, the mouse pointer disappears while you are painting a stroke and reappears when you release the mouse button
and stop painting.
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Shape Editing
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When this setting is activated, new Bezier shapes are drawn with smooth handles, creating curves at each point instead of
the sharp corners that are created when the setting is deactivated.
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As advertised, activates the Edit Point tool when you finish drawing a closed shape of any type.
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Freehand Strokes
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Controls how closely a new freehand shape's outline matches the contour that you draw in a vector paint layer. When setting the Curve Accuracy, bear in mind that although shapes drawn at higher accuracy settings are more accurate, they
tend to have noisier edges/outlines because the curves replicate variations caused by subtle hand movements.
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