Herself’s Webtools

Gimp has four main drawing tools, a pencil which draws with sharp edges. You can change the opacity, size, shape and use all the modes available to layers.

You have a paint brush which has all the same options as a pencil but the edges are not as sharp. The paint brush also offers more options to blend such as fade out, incremental and gradient color options.

The air brush works as you’d expect with opacity, modes, size, shape, fade out and gradient options. You can also control the paint rate and pressure.

Ink give the effect that using an old style ink brush and ink well would give you. You have 3 shapes, and can adjust your pen size and angle and pressure.

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