MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE290Specifying Brush panel attributesWhen you choose a painting tool, the Brush panel displays the attributesfor that tool in four folders: Shape, Options, Color, and Advanced. Thecurrent settings of these attributes are the same as they were when lastselected. If you change them, you can save the new settings to the Pro-duction Library by clicking the Save button on the Attribute toolbar. ThePaint Gallery of the Production Library also has a large number of paintbrush presets, such as specific types of art-pencils (2B, 6H), felt-tip pensand effect brushes like fog and light. To use them as the current brush,double-click the thumbnail of the one you want or drag-and-drop it into anedit window.Note:The attributes explained below indicate all possible tool options. These varydepending on the type of tool you are using.BRUSH PANEL: SHAPE TAB1. Height specifies the height of a brush. (You can also drag the vertical slider to theright of the preview. To keep aspect ratio, click the Lock button.)2. Width specifies the width of a brush. (You can also drag the horizontal slider atthe bottom of the preview. To keep aspect ratio, click the Lock button.)3. Erase removes previously applied paint from the paint layer.4. Elliptical defines the shape of the brush head as elliptical. To use a circularhead, lock the width and height sliders.5. Rectangular defines the shape of the brush head as rectangular. To use asquare head, lock the width and height sliders.Brush Angle defines the angle of the brush tip, from 0 (perpendicular to theimage surface) to 359 (the most extreme angle).Soft edge adjusts the color blending along the brush’s edge, from 0 (no blending)to 100 (complete blending). The greater the soft edges, the slower your paintingtakes effect because Video Paint has to calculate the appropriate amount of blendwith the underlying image.12345
