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The Deep Paint Toolbar

From Deep Paint's toolbar you have a number of tools to choose from. Going across and down the tools are Eraser, Freehand, Text, Fill, Clone, Eyedropper, Selection, Magic Wand, Pan, Zoom, Move, and Rotate. If you're familiar with Photoshop and other paint applications, most of these tools will be familiar to you. The rotate tool is unique, however; it allows you to tilt your canvas to any angle... much as you would angle your paper on the table when working with traditional tools. Each tool has various options that can be customized from the tool's options palette. The tool options palette changes to reflect the currently selected tool's options.

Below the tools in the toolbar you have the standard color swatches with the current foreground and background colors. Below the color swatch you see three swatches labeled C, B, and S. This is where you control the color, bump, and shininess qualities of your paint. Clicking on the C, B, or S toggles each of these qualities on or off so you can paint using any combination of the three.

When you click any of the swatches next to the toggle you'll see Deep Paint's Color Picker where you can change the active color and its transparency as well as the background color, and the bump and shininess levels. Bump and shine are indicated with shades of gray; where white represents the highest amount of bump or shine and black represents no bump or shine. The color picker can remain open all the time, or hidden away until you need it. Deep Paint also has a color swatch palette for quickly changing the paint color from a set of swatches. Deep Paint supports standard Photoshop ACO color swatches so you can load and save any of your favorite custom color palettes from Photoshop.

The next swatch in the toolbar is the canvas or paper texture. Clicking the swatch allows you to change the canvas from any of the approximately 30 textures that come preinstalled, or you can load your own textures. The last two buttons on the toolbar allow you to toggle between selection mode and mask mode and works just like Photoshop's Quick Mask mode.

Next we'll take a look at the various command panels, starting with the presets.

Next Page > Presets Panel > Page 1, 2, 3, 4

~ Sue Chastain
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