Vector Brush Tool

The Vector Brush Tool paints by scaling or repeating an image along a path (line).

As you paint, nodes are created automatically and can be edited with the Node Tool.

The tool uses a soft, round brush as default. Other vector brushes can be selected from the Brushes Studio.

The brush stroke's width can be controlled with your Apple Pencil which responds to pressure automatically. Alternatively, you can use velocity (finger speed when drawing stroke).

Settings

The following Vector Brush settings can be adjusted from the context toolbar:

Width—the brush (stroke) size in pixels.
Opacity—how see through the brush stroke is.
More—tap to display the Brushes dialog to access advanced brush settings. If you have adopted a brush from a brush category and make modifications to the brush from the context toolbar, the Save option here allows you to create a new brush with your modified settings.
Stroke—tap to choose the stroke color. You can also set this via the Color Studio.
Controller—controls how the brush stroke responds to various inputs:
- Brush Defaults—the brush variance and controller settings stored with the currently selected brush are used.
- Automatic—the input type (Pencil, finger) is detected and the brush will work automatically with that input.
- Pressure—brush stroke is only responsive to pressure from Apple Pencil.
- Velocity—brush stroke is only responsive to speed of your finger.
Stabilizer—enables stroke stabilization using either Rope stabilizer or Window stabilizer mode; the former drags the stroke end by a 'rope' to smooth the stroke but lets you introduce sharp corners at increasing rope Length (radius) values by redirecting the slackened rope; the latter will smooth the stroke by averaging sampled input positions within a Window whose size is configurable.

Settings

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