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Use the Apple Pencil with brushes - Pixelmator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Pixelmator
Use the Apple Pencil with brushes
- Now if your tablet supports a stylus, such as the Apple Pencil, you can actually get some pretty cool effects and paint on your image. Now you'll find under the setup here that devices you can add additional devices, such as a Wacom stylus or a Jot stylus, but I've already paired the Apple Pencil by plugging it into the lightening port on the bottom using the standard Apple setup. Alright, let's make a new empty layer. We'll tap here and choose an empty layer, we'll go with the transparent. And what I wanna do is paint. So I'll grab the brush stroke here and choose to work with paint and erase. You'll now see some basic controls. Now we can adjust things here, such as the overall adjustment here for the brush. I just tap to bring up all my choices. You'll see things like pencil lines, giving us some different strokes, and crayon strokes here, which is kind of cool. Let's go ahead and change that color to a richer greyish black. You'll also find, of course, that you can swipe through…
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