• | To adjust pressure, tilt, and bearing when using a mouse |
• | To adjust fingerwheel settings when using a mouse |
You can link brush settings (such as size, opacity, and angle) to stylus input data (such as velocity, direction, pressure, airbrush fingerwheel, tilt, and bearing). Refer to Expression settings for more information about linking brush settings to stylus input controls.
If you don’t have a stylus, you can adjust the mouse so it simulates stylus pressure, tilt, bearing, and fingerwheel settings. For more information, see Mouse controls.
When you use a pressure-sensitive stylus or pen tablet, the amount of pressure that you apply controls the opacity and width of your strokes. Brush variants: (left) Soft Vine, HARD MEDIA - Charcoal; (middle) Real Pointed Bristle 2, Real Watercolor; (right) Stencil Flow Map – Real 2B Pencil, Pens and pencils
Some brush variants, such as the Smeary Flat variant in the Oils category, react to stylus tilt (how close to vertical the stylus is held).
An example of an airbrush variant (Coarse, Paint – Airbrushes) that reacts to tilt. (left) The stylus is perpendicular to the tablet, (middle and right) varying degrees of tilt produce different marks.
A brushstroke with a pencil variant, Real 6B Soft Pencil (Pens and pencils). The mark varies in width as you change the tilt of the stylus. When you hold the stylus straight up, you get a fine line; as you start to tilt the stylus, the line gets thicker.
Examples of brushstrokes that are affected by pen bearing: (left) Grainy Oils Jitter (Thick Paint), (right) Fan Brush (PAINT - Acrylics)
Some Corel Painter airbrushes, for example, the Coarse Spray Jitter variant (Airbrushes), take advantage of stylus fingerwheel controls.
The dot that appears along the outer circle of the enhanced brush ghost indicates the pen rotation.
Brushstrokes can respond to the direction in which the stylus is moving.
A sample brushstroke created with the Flow Fur Tail 2 variant (Particles). As you change the stroke path, the the fur hairs change direction.
Brushstrokes can vary in response to the rate at which the pen moves across the tablet.
A brushstroke (Leaky Pen variant, Pens and pencils) with low velocity (left) and high velocity (right)
A brushstroke (Spray-Size-P variant, Image Hose) with randomness (right) and without randomness (left)
You can adjust brushstrokes according to the luminance of the clone source.
A brushstroke with the Spray-Size-P Angle-W variant (Image Hose). Higher luminance (closer to white) produces a wider stroke.
To adjust pressure, tilt, and bearing when using a mouse |
1 . | Choose Window Brush Control Panels Mouse. |
2 . | Move the Pressure slider. |
A 100% setting uses maximum pressure. |
3 . | Move the Tilt slider. |
A 90° setting simulates a stylus that is perpendicular to the tablet. |
4 . | Move the Bearing slider. |
A setting of zero indicates that if a stylus were in use, it would be pointing left. |
5 . | Move the Rotation slider. |
A 360° setting simulates a stylus that complete a 360°-barrel rotation. |
To see the effect of the tilt setting, apply a stroke to the drawing window using the Fine Spray variant of the Airbrush category.
To adjust fingerwheel settings when using a mouse |
1 . | Choose Window Brush Control Panels General. |
2 . | Choose Wheel from the Expression list box. |
3 . | Choose Window Brush Control Panels Mouse. |
4 . | Move the Wheel slider. |
A 90% setting indicates that if a stylus were in use, it would be perpendicular to the tablet. |