3.4. Paintbrush Tool
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### 3.4. Paintbrush Tool

The paintbrush tool paints fuzzy brush strokes. All strokes are rendered using the current brush.

#### Activate Tool

- The Paintbrush Tool can be called in the following order, from the image-menu: Tools/ Paint Tools/Paintbrush .

- The Tool can also be called by clicking the tool icon:

#### Key modifiers (Defaults)

Shortcut

  The P key will change the active tool to Paintbrush Tool.

Ctrl

  Ctrl changes the paintbrush to a Color Picker.

Shift

  Shift places the paintbrush into straight line mode. Holding Shift while clicking Button 1 will generate a straight line. Consecutive clicks will continue drawing straight lines that originate from the end of the last line.

#### Options

| Note
See the Brush Tools Overview for a description of tool options that apply to many or all brush tools.

Overview

  The available tool options can be accessed by double clicking the Paintbrush Tool icon.

Opacity

  The Opacity slider sets the transparency level for the paint. A higher opacity setting results in a more opaque fill and a lower setting results in a more transparent fill. The resulting opacity is the percentage of the original color opacity: if the foreground color opacity is 50% and if you set paintbrush opacity to 50% the paintbrush color opacity will be 25%.

Mode

  The Mode dropdown list provides a selection of paint application modes. A list of these modes can be found in the Glossary.

Brush

  Indicates the active brush. Clicking on the brush icon opens the brush selection dialog.

Gradient

  The dropdown list allows to select a gradient that will be used if the "Use Color from Gradient" option is checked. This gradient can be reversed by checking the Reverse option.

Incremental

  The Incremental checkbox activates incremental paint mode for the tool so that color opacity increases each time the brush passes over the same place but cann't excede the original color opacity. More information about incremental mode can be found in the glossary.

Pressure Sensitivity

  The Pressure Sensitivity section sets the sensitivity levels for input devices that support this option.

  - Opacity: Drawing opacity increases with stylus pen pressure.

  - Hardness: Drawing sharpness increases with stylus pressure.

  - Size: Drawing width increases with stylus pressure.

  - Color: Gimp uses the active gradient colors in order as stylus pressure increases.

Fade Out

  This option sets the stroke to fade out after the specified distance. The stroke will fade to transparency at the completion of the set distance.

Use Color from Gradient

  Instead of using the Foreground or Background color, the color is based on the active gradient selection.

  The gradient is painted in a forward direction. The entire color sequence of the gradient will be rendered within the distance set.

Repeat

  Sawtooth Wave: Renders the gradient repeatedly. At each expiry of the distance that has been set, the gradient will begin rerendering from the beginning.

  Triangular Wave: Renders the gradient repeatedly. At each expiry of the distance that has been set, the gradient will reverse direction and render in that direction until the expiry of the distance once more. At this point, it will begin again until the stroke is complete.

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