General Settings
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All paint tools have common brush settings: Radius, Opacity and Feather are 3 parameters that can always be adjusted. Also, it's possible to choose a Custom Brush from any picture file on your filesystem.
 
·Move the Radius slider to change the size of any brush.  
·Move the Opacity slider to change the intensity of the brush on the canvas.  
·Move the Feather slider to smoothen or intensify the borders of the brush.  

If the Paint Over option is checked, the brush will act like a real brush, i.e. it will always paint on the canvas. This way, an increasing (additive) amount of painting is achieved if you pass on the same point of the picture again. When unchecked, the brush will not reperform painting when passing on parts of the picture that were already painted.

You can also choose the painting Step. If you disable this option, the step will be chosen for you automatically. The Step is the distance between two consecutive brush strokes. You won't notice these brush strokes while keeping the left mouse button pressed during painting. The option is useful in combination with a brush feather, as the feather tends to disappear during slow painting movements.

Blend mode

Imagine there are 2 colors you want to mix: a background color and a foreground color. You can mix them in many different ways, for example you can average the amount of each color ("average" blend mode). CodedColor provides you with many blend modes to experiment with.

Paint modes

The paint modes are usually 2 for every paint tool: Painting and Erasing.

The Erasing mode lets you correct mistakes by restoring the original picture using a brush. This eraser can only be used for the current tool changes. To undo changes completely, use the Eraser Brush dialog. It allows you to restore parts of the original image after several consecutive tool changes.

Some tools also have a Color Picker mode to select a color inside the picture. See the Red Eye topic for a complete button overview.

icon_tipImportant
 
·When going into Zoom or Selection mode, the Brush Paint mode is disabled. You have to press the Brush button again, in order to resume painting.  
 
·When selecting parts of the image using the selection tools, all brushes and correction dialogs only apply to these selections. Selections can also have a feather, reducing the effect of the brush or correction close to the selection borders.  

icon_tipRelated Topics
 
·Red-Eye Correction  
·Before/After Tutorials  

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