Also zoom in/out on the mouse scroll wheel. Onscreen buttons, shortcut controls, and menu controls.

Most of the same options available as the Brush options described above. Paint Fill - Detection mode (Transparency (Strict/Fuzzy), Color difference (Transparency range)), Target (Working layer, Selection source, All image), and Anti-aliasing.

If you can access them the options are Drawing mode (Normal/Vivid/Deep/Multiply), Edge shape (4 options), Size, Min size, Density, Brush shape (Simple circle/Spread/Spread & Noise/Bristle/Flat bristle) and amount, Texture (No texture/Paper textures/Paper/Canvas) and amount, Blending, Dilution, Persistence (Keep opacity), Blending quality, Edge hardness, Min density, Max density pressure, Hard/Soft (Pressure sensitivity), Pressure options (Density/Size/Blend), and finally default sizes.īrushes can be added, but has to be done so in the installed folder, see here.Ĭommon Necessities - Other tools that are primarily tools, and is surprising lacking in some software making it necessary to include them briefly. Hopefully you do not have a small display otherwise they will still likely be off screen. The second image shows all color related items switched off to see the brush options. The only method is to disable all the color options (Color Wheel, sliders, palettes, everything). Options - It is a problem to access all the options as many are off the screen and there are no scrollbars or options to access them! Program Speed - Always quick and responsive with no noticeable lag - even at maximum page settings of size/resolution. Graphics - EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti SC (Superclocked GM107) 1 GB (DDR5 memory) Is subjective to hardware installed, so with that in mind here is myĬurrent workhorse PC (A updated HP Z200 Workstation) specs I used for testing with all updated drivers.ĬPU - Intel Core i5 CPU 660 3.33GHz (2 Cores, 4 Threads) Here is a good beginners tutorial, and a DeviantArt group (examples, help, brushes, etc). However it does have a large fan base of users (a cult following on DeviantArt and elsewhere), so finding tutorials online and videos on YouTube is rather easy. Software includes a help file, but no official help /videos /tutorials online. Raster or Vector - Primarily raster however, various things can be done in editable vector format too.Įase Of Use - Very easy to get started.

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