Color Pencil

The Color Pencil is designed to draw free-form lines with hard edges. Press P to quickly access this tool.

The tool's parameters will be shown in a floating box over an image (by right-clicking the mouse) and also in the Settings Panel.

To change the value of a parameter, enter a numerical value in the field next to the parameter and press Enter (Mac: Return) or move the slider.

• Size (1-1000). The maximum width of a line made by the brush (in pixels).
• Blend Mode. It defines how the pencil strokes blend with the background. The program provides 16 blend modes.

  Normal Mode	Overlay Mode

• Opacity (1-100). The opacity of the pencil's strokes in relationship to the color of the background. This parameter sets the opacity color, by which a line is drawn: at lower values, the color of the line is paler and its interaction with the color of the background increases.

  Painting of a Ballerina Figure With the Pencil
  Opacity = 80%	Opacity = 20%

• Spot Spacing (5-200). Distribution of elements, from which the line is comprised. Increasing this parameter creates a line that is composed of a series of circles, the distance between the circles depends on the parameter's value.

  Drawing With Spaces
  Spot Spacing = 5	Spot Spacing = 91 and 100

• Aspect (1-100). The compression of the pencil tip. At value = 1 the it is flattened into a line, at 100 it is a circle, and at intermediary values it is an ellipse. The lower the values for this parameter, the longer the ellipse, along the angle specified by Angle.

  Application of War Paint on a Native's Face
  Aspect = 30	Aspect = 80

• Angle (0-180). The rotation angle of the tool.

  Pattern on a Vase
  Angle = 30	Angle = 140

The pencil's color is set in the Color/Swatches palettes. To choose a color bring the cursor over the spectral line (the cursor takes the form of a pipette) and click on the desired color or click on the box and choose a color from the standard dialog Select Color. In some cases it might be preferable to select a color manually, by adjusting the sliders.

In order to draw a straight line, click the left mouse button at its starting point, then, press Shift, click on the end point, and let go of Shift. If Shift is not released, a new line will be drawn to each point where the mouse is clicked.