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84 Using Brushes

5. (Optional) Enable

to leave the brush stroke

selected on the page or, if disabled, leaves it deselected.

6. (Optional) Enable

to fill the unclosed curve

produced with the brush stroke with a default fill colour.

7. With the

brush cursor drag a brush stroke across your page.

After this first brush stroke, there are two ways in which you are likely to paint

subsequently, depending on the extent to which you plan to edit brush strokes as

you go. To assist you, the Select on Create button on the Brushes context

toolbar can be used:

• Edit then Paint. With the button disabled, the brush stroke is laid

down and is immediately deselected. The stroke needs to be reselected

to perform any editing. Use when you’re happy to set all the brush

properties (colour, brush type, width, etc) before painting (as above),

especially if you intend to paint repeatedly with the same brush stroke.

• Paint and Edit. With the button enabled, a painted brush stroke will

remain selected, meaning that the brush stroke can be fine-tuned via

the context toolbar immediately. Use when changing your brush

properties frequently, e.g. when adjusting a brush stroke’s colour,

width, opacity or shape. The ESC key deselects the current brush

stroke.

Trouble applying colour to brush strokes? Remember to select the

line swatch on the Colour tab.

Setting Brush Defaults

See Updating defaults on p. 47.

Editing brush strokes

It's possible to alter any previously draw brush stroke with respect to its

properties, brush type, and shape.

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