### 3.9. Airbrush

The Airbrush tool emulates a traditional airbrush. This tool is suitable for painting soft areas of color.

#### 3.9.1. Activating the Tool

There are different possibilities to activate the tool:

- From the main menu: Tools → PaintTools → Airbrush.

- By clicking the tool icon in the Toolbox.

- By pressing the A keyboard shortcut.

#### 3.9.2. Key modifiers

Ctrl

  Ctrl changes the airbrush to a Color Picker.

Shift

  Shift places the airbrush into straight line mode. Holding Shift while clicking the mouse LeftButton will generate a straight line. Consecutive clicks will continue drawing straight lines that originate from the end of the last line.

#### 3.9.3. Options

Figure 14.64. Tool Options Dialog

Normally, tool options are displayed in a window attached under the Toolbox as soon as you activate a tool. If they are not, you can access them from the main menu through Windows → Dockable Windows → Tool Options which opens the option window of the selected tool. The available tool options can also be accessed by double clicking the corresponding tool icon in the Toolbox.

Mode, Opacity, Brush, Size, Aspect Ratio, Angle, Spacing, Hardness, Force, Dynamics, Dynamics Options, Apply Jitter, Smooth Stroke, Lock brush to view, Expand Layers
  See the Common Paint Tool Options for a description of tool options that apply to many or all paint tools.
Motion only

  If this option is checked, the airbrush paints only when it moves.

Rate

  The Rate slider adjusts the speed of color application that the airbrush paints. A higher setting will produce darker brush strokes in a shorter amount of time.

Flow

  This slider controls the amount of color that the airbrush paints. A higher setting here will result in darker strokes.

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