Introduction

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Introduction

One of the features of the Paint Effects Tool is the ability to paint colors, patterns, and textures on a 2D canvas image. You can use the image as an independent piece of art, a background image in your scene, or a texture to be applied to a 3D surface.

In this lesson, you learn how to:

Display the 2D canvas.
Paint strokes on the canvas, and modify your paint brush.
Use the Visor to access the many pre-defined paint brushes.
Modify brush settings such as brush size, color, and transparency.
Modify the canvas size.
Smear, blur, and erase brush strokes from the 2D canvas.
Use the pre-defined Paint Effects brushes to paint flowers and foliage.
Save modified brush settings to the Shelf.
View the alpha channel for your 2D image.