The Draw Modes

 

The Draw Mode defines how brushes behave when they’re drawn to the canvas.  There are three types of draw mode, and they’re selected from the Brush view Box.

 

1.    Standard mode:  This is the default draw mode. 

 

          Standard mode with a default brush:

          Left clicking will draw the brush using the “ink” colour.

          Right clicking will draw the brush using the “paper” colour.

 

          Standard mode with custom brushes:

          Left clicking will draw the brush “as is”.

          Right clicking will draw a silhouette of the brush using the “paper” colour.

 

2.    Colour mode:

 

          Colour mode using a default brush creates the same effect as Standard mode.

 

          Colour mode using the custom brushes:

          Left clicking will draw a silhouette of the brush using the “ink” colour.

          Right clicking will draw a silhouette of the brush using the “paper” colour.

 

In the above two modes, the “transparent” area of the brush will be the paper colour.  So if a white circle is drawn on a black background, and the paper colour is black, when the image is drawn the black area surrounding the white circle will be ignored.

 

3.    Replace mode:

         

          All brushes will be drawn as a solid rectangle.

          So effectively there is no “transparent” area of the brush.

 

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