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Changing brush size and opacity

Changing brush size and opacity

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Changing brush size and opacity

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- [Narrator] In this movie, let's take a look at some more advanced options for changing the way our brushes behave. I have the default round brush selected at the moment, and what I'm going to do, as it's selected, is tap on the icon again, and as you saw in the previous movie, I can do things to change the size, and the opacity of my brush. Down at the bottom of the toolbox at the moment, you can see some sliders, and if I tap there, that's usually where I get further options. So, if I want to, I could change the roundness of my brush, like so, and then the angle that that is at, and you can see the resulting stroke next to that changing. So, I get an idea of how that is going to behave. If I'd like the brush to taper, I can dial that in, and it's tapering as a percentage of the actual size, just there, and you can see that very, very steep. If I just come out and use that one, like so, might work for some things, and then beneath that, I've got options as to whether or not pressure…

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