Brush FX
Clicking this icon brings up the Brush effects panel. |
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The Red, Green, and Blue sliders let you change the color of the image. Your BrushFx will commonly come with their own unique color settings, but these sliders let you add or subtract from their values. The noise slider lets you add fractal noise to the brush effect. The noise type slider lets you select a numeric value that represents different types of noise. |
The 'Create animated' button lets you create an animated brush, with the brush effect animated over time. The noise speed and streak speak can be altered, and you can set the number of frames (or images) you want to generate for the animated brush.
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The settings panel lets you alter a tremendous number of attributes for your Brushfx. The settings must be saved in a file before they can be used. Use the file menu to save your settings. The width and height parameters are not saved with the file. They are for the preview display only. The flare color sliders alter the color of the effect. The color falloff sliders change the color as the effect falls off from the hotspot The Generation drop-down control lets you specify how the effect is generated. A linear value will give you a simple hotspot that falls off equally in a linear fashion. Hump will give you an effect that stays hot, then drops off very quickly at the edges. Square will give you an effect that is roughly square or diamond shaped. Pentagonal, Hexagonal, and Octagonal will give you an effect in those shapes. The Falloff drop-down controls how the effect is shaded from the hotspot to the outside edges. A linear settings gives you a simple linear falloff. Exponential falls off much faster at the beginning and less quickly toward the edges. The curve setting is a more extreme version of exponential. |
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The Smoothing parameter controls how the bands look. Un-smoothed gives you a very hard, un anti-aliased edge on the streaks. Smoothed gives you a smooth edge that alters the shape of the effect. Enhanced gives you a smooth edge without drastically altering the roundness of the effect. |
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