Draw Tool

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The "Draw Tool" is the one that most artists will be familiar with. This tool is best used with a drawing tablet, although it can be used with a mouse.

The "Draw Tool" can generate a Region Layer, an Outline Layer and an Advanced Outline Layer with pressure output from the tablet mapped to the line's width.

Options

The Tool Options Panel allows you to specify:

• Name : Used for the new layer; any number in this field will automatically increment with each layer created
• Layer Type : Whether create Outline and/or Advanced Outline, Region layers (Splines)
• Blend Method : The blending method used to composite on the layers below
• Opacity : Sets the Amount for new layers. Defaults to 1.00 (Completely opaque)
• Brush Size : Sets the Outline width or the size of the gradient (only for Outline, Advanced Outline and Curve Gradient)
• Pressure Sensitive
  • Min Pressure : The value of this option clamps the lower end of the Pressure sensitivity to a specific value, essentially determining how thin the thinnest possible segment is relative to the Brush Size parameter in the Toolbox.
• Smoothness : Determines how much tablet jitter is removed, and as a result, how many vertices the resulting splines are composed of. Could by Local or Global
  • Local : Adjust the Spline between the Splines points.
  • Global : Adjust the Spline globally.
• Width Max Error : for advanced outline layer.
• Round End
• Auto Loop : When the stroke of the "Draw Tool" ends near the beginning of the stroke, automatically connect the last Handle to the first.
• Auto Extend : When the stroke begins and/or end at or near an endpoint Handle of another outline, the resulting outline is simply appended to the existing Outline Layer
• Auto Link : When the stroke begins and/or ends at or near a vertex Handle in another outline, and the outline isn't being extended by the "Auto Extend" option above, the first and/or last vertex of the resulting outline is linked to the Handle on the existing Outline Layer.
• Feather : Set the Feather Parameter on the layer
• Auto Export : Automatically Export the Spline list points into the Values Base Nodes of the Library Panel

Buttons

Fill Last Stroke 

Hit this button after having created a shape with the "Draw Tool" to create a Region Layer, filled with the current "Fill Color", of the last trace you have drawn.