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Blending brushes
Lesson 1: Painting in 2D using Paint Effects
Beyond the lesson
Smearing, blurring, and erasing paint
Now you’ll work with brush types that smear,
blur, and erase paint.
To
smear, blur, and erase paint
- Select Brush
> Reset Template Brush to select the default brush.
- On
the Brush menu, try the Smear, Blur,
and Erase menu items and paint on
the strokes already on the canvas. You can also change these settings using
the Brush Type setting in the Paint
Effects Brush Settings window (Brush > Edit Template
Brush).
- If
you need to perform compositing work, you can view the image’s alpha channel
by clicking this button: .
White regions represent full opacity. Black
represents full transparency.
- If
you turned on the alpha channel (Display > Alpha Channel),
return to the display of full color by selecting Display
> All Channels.
- Clear
the canvas and restore the canvas color to white (Canvas
> Clear > ).
- To
quit the canvas display and return to a scene view, select Panels
> Perspective > persp (Hotkey 8).
- In
the Toolbox, click the Select
Tool.
Clicking the Select Tool quits
the Paint Effects Tool, and the
mouse cursor displays as an arrow.
- Select Paint
Effects > Preset Blending to turn off Preset
Blending before you proceed to the next lesson.