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Brush ​

A brush is what a drawing's strokes are drawn with. Select a drawing and its Freeform menu offers the brushes in one row; the settings button, last on the bottom row of the menu's right-hand container, opens the brush's Recipe with the settings below for the brush in use — the named stroke's, every stroke's under Select all, or the next stroke's when none is named. Hover a row of the Recipe, or hold a finger still on it, and it shows what that setting does — the sentence this page lists for it — with Learn more leading to its section here; the value does not change.

Where you can use a brush ​

  • Image — Freeform
  • Video — Freeform
  • Document — Freeform

What you can do with a brush you made ​

You can keep a brush you have tuned, share it, or put it on another stroke:

Star · Post · Copy

Stamps ​

  • Spacing — How far apart the stamps stand along the line, in brush sizes.
  • Density — How many stamps land around each point of the line.
  • Scatter — How far each stamp may stray from the line.
  • Turn — Whether each stamp turns: not at all, at random, or to follow the line.
    • None · Random · Along the line
  • Turn amount — How much of a random turn each stamp takes.
  • Fade — How see-through each stamp is.
  • Fade range — How much more solid some stamps are than others.
  • Pattern — Which random pattern the stamps follow.

Taper ​

  • Changes with — What the size and fade follow: the length of the line, its pressure or its speed.
    • Length · Pressure · Speed
  • Size from — The brush size at the start, or at the lightest pressure or slowest speed.
  • Size to — The brush size at the end, or at the heaviest pressure or fastest speed.
  • Curve — How the size goes from one end to the other.
  • Fade from — How solid the line is at the start, or at the lightest pressure or slowest speed.
  • Fade to — How solid the line is at the end, or at the heaviest pressure or fastest speed.
  • Curve — How the fade goes from one end to the other.

Lands ​

  • Lands — Whether the stroke inks over the strokes drawn before it, or erases them where it draws.
    • Over · Erase