Help with brush smoothing or stabilizing or damping

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Hobbit_feet45
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Help with brush smoothing or stabilizing or damping

Post by Hobbit_feet45 »

Hey guys I recently purchased Corel Paintshop Pro 2021 Ultimate and I was looking for an option to smooth my lines like in Photoshop because my hand is very shaky and jittery. From what I've read the smoothing/ damping feature should be in the Brush Control Panel but unfortunately I can't find the Brush Control Panel, its not in the Window tab or anywhere else that I can see. Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Help with brush smoothing or stabilizing or damping

Post by Jean-Luc »

Use the Pen Tool (V) in Draw Freehand Mode and increase the Tracking value.

You may also modify the speed of your mouse in the Windows settings.
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Re: Help with brush smoothing or stabilizing or damping

Post by Hobbit_feet45 »

Sorry I don't understand, I am trying to paint freehand but the "paintbrush" doesn't do anything. The watercolor brush and airbrush and oil pen all seem to work fine but when I try to paint or draw or whatever with the "paintbrush" tool nothing happens. I also don't like the "pen tool because it just connects lines to points, thats not really what I was trying to accomplish.
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Re: Help with brush smoothing or stabilizing or damping

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Verify in the Materials Palette if the Foreground color is not set on transparent.

See also in the Toolbar Options : Opacity must be on 100 and Blend Mode on Normal.
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