1. Dynamics that can be used for drawing tools

Depending on the item, the Dynamics can be configured. You can reflect the changes in the dynamics to a tool’s set value. You can configured dynamics from Dynamics settings.

 

Input

Pen pressure: Used as an input value when using a pen tablet. The relationship between the input value and output value of the pen pressure can be configured in the graph.

 

(A) Since the relationship between the pen pressure and output is directly proportional, the magnitude of the pen pressure is reflected upon the size.

(B) When the graph bulges to the upper left, the output is large even when the pen pressure is low, so it will feel “soft”.

(C) When the graph bulges to the bottom right, the output is small even when the pen pressure is high, so it will feel “hard”.

 

The pen pressure depends greatly on individual preference and also on the features of the tablet device, so please adjust it to your liking.

 

Tilt: When using a pen tablet that detects tilt, the magnitude of the tilt is used as an input value. Tilt, similar to pen pressure, can have its relationship between the input and output value configured in a graph.

 

Velocity: The velocity of the cursor is used as an input value. If Velocity is checked, you can configure the relationship between input and output values, just like pen pressure and tilt.

 

 

When brush size is set to respond to velocity, a graph that goes from the upper left down to the right will result in thinner strokes as drawing speed increases.

On the other hand, a graph that goes from lower left to upper right will create thicker strokes the faster you draw.

 

Random: The input value is set to a random value.

 

• Each checked input on the left will affect the dynamics.

 

Minimum value

When each input value is at minimum value, you can configure at what percent the drawing will be effected given that the set value is at 100.

For instance, if the brush size is configured to 100 and the minimum value of pen pressure to 50, the brush size without any pressure becomes 50.

 

2. Brush Size

(1) Brush Size: Adjust the brush size.

(2) Specify by size on screen: The size changes in proportion to the scale of the canvas. (The size of appearance in the display will remain constant.)

(3) At least 1 pixel: For example, if the size dynamics is set to Pen pressure, at least one pixel is drawn so that the lines will not be interrupted even at a weak pen pressure.

3. Ink

(1) Opacity: Adjust brush opacity.

 

(2) Blending mode: Select the brush’s blending mode. The effect of each blending mode is the same as layer blending modes.

However, there are some that do not exist as blending modes for layers. (For details on the effects of brush blending modes, see "Setting item list (alphabetical order) > I > “ink” from the “Sub tool setting guide”).

Brush blending modes only affects things drawn on the layer. (Will not affect the layer below.) This can be configured if Color mixing is disabled.

 

(3) Color mixing: Draw while blending with the already existing color on the layer. Blend and Running color also blend the transparency levels.

 

• Blend: Draw while blending all color you pass through.

• Running color: Draw while blending colors of the brush and the areas the brush passes through.

• Smear: Mixes with all the already present colors that the brush stroke passes through.

 

(4) Amount of paint: Adjust the proportion to mix the RGB components of the background color (already existing color on the layer) and the drawing color. The larger the value, the more RGB components of the drawing color will be used.

• Density of paint set to “0”. Color mixing option set to “Blend”. 100: It will not be affected by the background color. 50: Drawing is conducted while 50% of the background color blends. 0: Drawing is conducted based on the background color.

 

(5) Density of paint: This sets the proportion of the background color (already existing color on the layer) and the transparent component of the drawing color. The higher the value, the higher the brush's opacity ratio. The larger the value, the higher the percentage of opacity set for the brush.

Note: Not available for Smear.

• Amount of paint set to “0”. Color mixing option set to “Blend”. Left: When the amount of paint is “0”, the drawing color is applied as if there is no background color and when it meets a background color, the background color and drawing color blend until it gradually becomes the background color.

 

Center: When starting to draw from the background color, the drawing color will not be reflected at all.

Right: When paint density is set to 100, the brush paints color with the opacity set to the brush, regardless of the opacity of the underlying color.

 

(6) Color stretch: Adjust how much color of the stroke start point is retained in the drawing.

• Amount of paint set to “0” and density of paint set to “0”.

 

(7) Intensity of blur: You can configure this when setting Color mixing to Running color.

Note: From Ver. 1.10.5, Blend with sub color has been moved from the Ink tab of Sub Tool Detail to the Color Jitter tab.

 

4. Color Jitter

Change brush tip color

 

By enabling Change brush tip color, you can change the hue, saturation, and brightness of the drawing color.

The higher the value, the greater the color change.

 

Blend with sub color: You can blend the main drawing color and sub drawing color. The closer the value is to 0, the closer it leans to the main color, and the closer to 100 it is, the closer it leans to the sub color.

 

 

 

Randomize per stroke

 

By enabling this, you can randomize the drawing color of each brushstroke.

The higher the value, the greater the color change.

 

5. Anti-aliasing

Apply anti-aliasing to the brush tip image.

 

6. Brush Shape

(1) Register to preset: Register the current brush to the presets.

(2) Apply brush shape: Select and apply a brush shape from the presets.

 

7. Brush tip

(1) Tip shape: Select the pattern to use for the brush tip from Circle or a Material. Since it is possible to set your own patterns, you can create your own brushes as well. Depending on the setting, you can draw multiple types of patterns continuously with one brush.

(2) Hardness: At value 100, the edge is evident (hard) while at value 1, it has a vague (soft) touch. This is an item that can be configured only when the Brush tip is set to Circle.

(3) Thickness: Adjust the thickness of the tip image. “100” is the original thickness.

(4) Direction of applying: Apply the setting of (3) in either a “horizontal” or “vertical” direction.

(5) Angle: Adjust the direction of tip image with an angle. “0” is the direction at initial registration.

(6) Brush density: Adjust the density of the brush.

(7) Adjust brush density by gap: When the spacing becomes narrower, the density is lowered and the density of the drawing is adjusted to be nearly constant.

 

Note: The difference between Opacity and Brush density

In Ink > Opacity, you can configure the opacity of each stroke.

 

8. Spraying effect

(1) Spraying effect: When activated, the tip image will scatter, similar to an airbrush when drawing.

(2) Particle Size: Specify a size for the brush tip image. (This is different from the brush size.)

 

Note: The brush size and the particle size when the spraying effect is enabled

The brush size refers to the area in which the particle are applied, and the particle size refers to the size of the brush tip image.

 

(3) Particle density: Adjust the density of the particle. The higher the value, the higher the number of images, and hence the higher density.

(4) Spray deviation: Adjust the proportion of how the brush tip image is applied around the brush center. The higher the value, the more the brush tip image is brought to the center.

(5) Direction of particle: Adjust the direction of the brush tip image. This is different from the direction of the brush. “0” is the direction of the initial image registration.

 

Note: Direction of particles dynamics

While you can select the dynamics for the direction of particles, the setting inputs will be different from others.

(1) None: Consistent (However, it becomes random when set to random.)

(2) Direction of line: Change the direction so that the direction of a line becomes the base position.

(3) Direction of whole spray: This sets it to be the same as the Direction of the Brush tip.

(4) Spray toward center: Change the direction so that it is directed towards the center point of the spray.

(5) Random: Changes the direction to random. You can configure the minimum value.

 

9. Stroke

(1) Gap: Adjust the gap of the brush. You can choose to adjust this with numbers or from Wide, Normal, and Narrow.

(2) Continuous spraying: Continue to draw while the pen is pressed down in the same location

(3) Ribbon: Drawing is done while the image is transformed to match the line of the stroke.

(4) Repeat method: If multiple tip images are used for one brush, this sets the display order.

(5) Blend brush tips with Darken: When the tip pattern overlaps, the overlap will be painted with a darker color.

 

10. Texture

This is an effective option when the tip shape is set to “Circle”.

(1) Texture: Tapping this shows the Select paper texture material dialog, and you can choose an image to use for the texture.

To set texture to “none”, tap on the trash can icon on the right.

• Materials that can be used for paper texture (displayed under Select paper texture material) are only those set to Use for paper texture.

(2) Texture density: Adjust how densely you would like to reflect a texture.

(3) Invert density: Invert the black and white from the image.

(4) Emphasize density: Emphasize the shade of a color within an image.

• Brush opacity set to “50”.

 

(5) Scale ratio: Scale the image that is used as the texture up/down.

(6) Rotation angle: Rotate the image that is used as the texture.

(7) Texture mode: Select the method to combine the drawn lines on the texture.

(8) Apply by each plot: “ON” > The texture is applied to a drawn pattern. “OFF” > The texture is applied to drawn lines. If this is set to “ON”, the patterns that overlap when drawing become darker.

The drawn lines may change even when using the same texture, depending on hardness, opacity and whether it is applied per spray or not.

 

11. 2-Brush shape

You can use this category when the Dual brush box is checked. What you can edit in the categories in the red box below is more or less the same as categories 6 - 10.

 

For more information on these settings, please see the following article.

 

12. Watercolor edge

(1) Watercolor edge: Apply a watercolor blend effect around the edges of a brush. The larger the value, the larger the width of the watercolor border, and darker the color.

• Transparency effect set to “50” and luminosity set to “100”.

 

(2) Opacity: Adjust the transparency of the watercolor edge. The higher the value, the higher the opacity gets.

(3) Darkness: Adjust the brightness of the watercolor edge. The higher the value, the lower the brightness. (It will become black.)

(4) Process after brush stroke: When this is set to “ON”, the watercolor edge will not be applied while drawing, but only once the drawing is completed.

(5) Blurring width: You can configure this when the Process after brush stroke is set to “ON”. Blur the watercolor edge.

 

13. Erase

(1) Vector eraser: Configure how to erase on a vector layer.

(2) Refer all layers: This can only be configured in cases where Erase up to intersection is selected for the Vector eraser. When it is set to “ON”, you are able to refer to a vector layers other than the current layer.

(3) Erase on all layers: This can be configured, when the blending mode of the ink is set to “Erase” or “Erase (compare)”. When it is set to “ON”, this will erase regardless of which layer it is drawn on.

 

14. Correction

Corrects line distortion from shaky hands and smooths out curves.

(1) Sharp angles: Make the corner pointed when a line with a corner is drawn.

(2) Stabilization: Adjusts the value of the correction. The larger the value, the stronger the correction. The correction configured in this item will be applied as soon as the stylus touches the tablet. 　

(3) Adjust by speed: When this is on, the stabilization level adjusts depending on the speed of the pen.

(4) Post correction: Adjusts the value of the correction. The larger the value, the stronger the correction. The correction configured in this part is correcting lines, after the drawing is completed.

Depending on the value, it is possible to correct a rough, jaggy line into an extremely smooth line as shown below.

(5) Adjust by speed: If this is set to “ON”, the faster the drawing speed is, the stronger the correction becomes. If you want to draw detailed parts thoroughly, you can set this off.

(6) Adjust by scale: If this is set to “ON”, you can adjust the strength of the correction by its scale. The smaller the display scale is, the stronger the correction will be.

This is because when the display scale has a large value, a strong correction is not needed for drawing a detailed segment.

(7) Bezier curve: If this is set to “ON”, the curve with correction becomes a Quadratic Bezier. When used on a vector layer, later adjustments to a curve will be made using a Quadratic Bezier.

(8) Taper: When a stroke is ending with diminishing pen pressure, this adjusts how much easing out will follow. The larger the value, the longer it will ease out.

(9) Enable snapping: Configure snap setting for the ruler.

(10) Vector magnet: When drawing near a line that is already drawn on a vector layer, this setting configures how it will attract another line. The larger the value, the stronger the snapping becomes.

 

15. Starting and ending

(1) Starting and ending: These settings reflect the specified parameters of the “starting” and “ending” of a line, regardless of the pen pressure.

Configure the Starting and ending effect dynamics to add starting and ending effects to lines.

(2) How to specify: Specify an area for starting and ending (easing in and out).

• Specify length: Specify the area for starting and ending.

• By percentage: Specify the proportion when considering the length of a line is 100%.

• Fade: The value up to the minimum value within the specified length is gradually reflected. (You cannot configure the starting (ease in).)

(3) Starting: When this is set to “ON”, the parameters change depending on the range of the “starting”. Also, this specifies the area with a value.

(4) Ending: When this is set to “ON”, the parameters change depending on the range of the “ending”. Also, this specifies the area with a value.

(5) Starting and ending by speed: When this is set to “ON”, the area of the starting and ending will be changed depending on the speed. The area becomes longer the faster the speed.

 

Starting and ending effect dynamics

In the parameters below, changes are made from minimum value to maximum value for “starting” and vice versa for “ending”.

 

16. Anti-overflow

(1) Do not cross lines of reference layer: When drawing while referencing a reference layer, configuring the setting can be done in the way that the drawing does not exceed the drawing on the reference layer.

(2) Fill up to vector path: These settings can be configured in a way that a fill will stop at the center line (path) of a vector when the vector layer is set to be the reference layer.

You can only configure this setting when (1) is set to “ON”. This allows you to paint without missing the tiny areas even when drawing on the vector layer with anti-aliasing.

(3) Color margin: Specify the range treated as the same color. The larger the value, the more colors would be considered in the acceptable range. You can only configure this setting when (1) is set to “ON”.

(4) Area scaling: Configure how wide (or narrow) to make the area. You can only configure this setting when (1) is set to “ON”.

In case the reference layer is a raster layer and anti-aliasing is applied on the drawing, it is possible to leave out painting the area that uses anti-aliasing. By slightly expanding the area, you can configure the settings so that the layer would be painted without leaving out any areas.

(5) Scaling mode: Specify how to zoom when (4) is set to “ON”.