3.6. Paintbrush
| 3. Brush Tools |

### 3.6. Paintbrush

Figure 13.59. Paintbrush

The paintbrush tool paints fuzzy brush strokes. All strokes are rendered using the current brush.

#### 3.6.1. Activating the Tool

- You can call the Paintbrush Tool in the following order, from the image-menu: Tools → Paint Tools → Paintbrush.

- The Tool can also be called by clicking the tool icon:

- or by using the P keyboard shortcut.

#### 3.6.2. Key modifiers (Defaults)

Ctrl

  This key changes the paintbrush to a Color Picker.

Shift

  This key places the paintbrush into straight line mode. Holding Shift while clicking Button 1 will generate a straight line. Consecutive clicks will continue drawing straight lines that originate from the end of the last line.

#### 3.6.3. Options

Figure 13.60. Paintbrush tool options

Normally, tool options are displayed in a window attached under the Toolbox as soon as you activate a tool. If they are not, you can access them from the image menu bar through Windows → Dockable Windows → Tool Options which opens the option window of the selected tool.

Mode; Opacity; Brush; Scale; Brush Dynamics; Fade Out; Apply Jitter; Incremental; Use Color from Gradient

  | Note
  See the Brush Tools Overview for a description of tool options that apply to many or all brush tools.

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