Paint with transparency - Clip Studio Paint Tutorial

- [Instructor] All right, this next feature is a quick one, but a super powerful one, and that is the ability to paint with transparency. Now in practice, it simply means that you can turn any mark making tool into an eraser with one simple switch. Let's see why this is so helpful. Let's reach to our wash brush and make some marks. I'll just add a couple of colors here so we can appreciate that nice blending. Now let's say we want to erase some of these strokes. Well, we might naturally reach for the eraser, so I'm going to tap the letter e on my keyboard, and just start erasing out with the soft eraser. Now this is totally fine, but the stock erasers are not going to give us that same textured, natural brush edge quality that we're likely looking for, and this can really start to get noticeable. That's where paint with transparency comes into play. You enable it by selecting the transparent swatch right here in the bottom left corner of the color picker. So I'm going to go back to my wash brush and restate some of these marks, and now I'm going to click on this little transparent swatch here in the bottom left corner of my color picker and instantly, the exact same brush I was using to paint color with is now turned into an eraser, and is effectively painting with transparency. We know that because if I turn my paper layer off here in my layers palette, we see that we really are painting out the transparency. To go back to a color, we just simply click any of the colors here in the color wheel, and it toggles us back to painting with opacity. So we're painting with opacity, changing some colors, and then we're painting with transparency. Super powerful feature. Now, there's a shortcut to it on the keyboard, and that's the letter C. So as I tap the letter C, notice what happens with the swatches right here at the bottom left corner of my color picker. The letter C toggles between painting with opacity and painting with transparency. This is a really powerful shortcut because I can just be painting, hit C, now I'm erasing. Tap C again, and now I'm painting. Another option is to throw the transparent color into the quick access panel like we did before with our previous colors. So I'm going to tap the letter C, or just make sure I've clicked the transparent swatch in my color picker, and now I'm moving over to my quick access panel, right-clicking, and adding a drawing color. So now I can click on any of these colors or access a color from the color picker, and as soon as I click transparent color, I'm in paint with transparency mode. Now paint with transparency works with any of the mark making tools. We haven't gone over a lot of them yet, but just to show you, I'm going to head over to the figure direct draw sub tool category, and let's just use this straight line, for example, and I'll just pick another orange color here, and the straight line does what you'd expect. It pretty much draws a straight line, but if I tap C and paint with transparency, that straight line tool is now erasing out. So again, any mark making tool can paint with opacity, or it can paint with transparency. This feature of Clip Studio Paint's brush engine is definitely one of my favorite.