Paint with Pencil, Brush or Pixel tools
The real greatness of the painting tools is the ability to use different brush sizes, shapes, hardness and blending modes when painting. Pixelmator's painting tools can be used not only to produce any style of painting, but also for improving your selections with masks or even retouching.
The Pencil Tool and the Brush Tool work just like traditional drawing tools. The difference between the Pencil Tool and the Brush Tool is that the Brush Tool creates soft strokes of color while the Pencil Tool creates hard-edged lines. To edit images at the pixel level, you can take advantage of the hard-edged, pixel-precise, pixel-art-type Pixel Tool.
1. In the Tools palette, select the Brush Tool to paint soft strokes, the Pencil Tool to paint hard-edged strokes.
2. In the Tool Options bar:
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**A** - Click the Action pop-up menu to show or hide Brushes and Colors palettes.
**B** - Click the color box in the Tool Options bar to #article:"93":"text":"pick a color"# .
**C** - Choose #article:"101":"text":"Brush presets"# from the Brushes palette. Click the Show Brushes button, or choose View > Show Brushes to bring up the Brushes palette.
**D** - #article:"62":"text":"Adjust the Opacity"# and
#article:"63":"text":"set the Blending mode"# for the tool in the Tool Options bar.
3. Drag the tool in an image to paint.
**Tip:** To paint a straight line, click at the starting point, then Shift-click at the ending point; or hold down the Shift key while painting.
- In the Tools palette, select the Brush Tool to paint soft strokes, the Pencil Tool to paint hard-edged strokes.
In the Tool Options bar:
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A - Click the Action pop-up menu to show or hide Brushes and Colors palettes.
B - Click the color box in the Tool Options bar to pick a color .
C - Choose Brush presets from the Brushes palette. Click the Show Brushes button, or choose View > Show Brushes to bring up the Brushes palette.
D - Adjust the Opacity and
set the Blending mode for the tool in the Tool Options bar.
Drag the tool in an image to paint.
Tip: To paint a straight line, click at the starting point, then Shift-click at the ending point; or hold down the Shift key while painting.
1. Select the Pixel Tool to work at the pixel level in the Tools palette.
2. In the Tool Options bar:
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**A** - Click the Action pop-up menu to turn the Round brush or the Eraser mode on or off, or to show or hide Colors palette.
**B** - Click the color box in the Tool Options bar #article:"93":"text":"to pick a color"# .
**C** - Choose #article:"101":"text":"Brush presets"# from the Brushes palette. Click the Show Brushes button, or choose View > Show Brushes for the Brushes palette to appear.
**D** - #article:"62":"text":"Adjust the Opacity"# and
#article:"63":"text":"set the Blending mode"# for the tool in the Tool Options bar.
3. Drag the tool in an image to paint.
- Select the Pixel Tool to work at the pixel level in the Tools palette.
In the Tool Options bar:
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A - Click the Action pop-up menu to turn the Round brush or the Eraser mode on or off, or to show or hide Colors palette.
B - Click the color box in the Tool Options bar to pick a color .
C - Choose Brush presets from the Brushes palette. Click the Show Brushes button, or choose View > Show Brushes for the Brushes palette to appear.
D - Adjust the Opacity and
set the Blending mode for the tool in the Tool Options bar.
Drag the tool in an image to paint.
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About brush collections