Smudge brush

Smudge drags color around. It uses the color where the stroke starts and blends it into the pixels along the stroke.

The Mode row

Smudge is a brush mode of the Pen tool. In Paint , select Pen to show its settings. The Mode row is below Size, Strength (shown for Draw and Spray only), and Smoothing. The settings window’s title shows the mode (e.g., Pen · Smudge), and while a mode other than Draw is on, the Pen button shows the mode’s name.

Pen · Smudge

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SmoothingOffLightNormalHeavy

ModeDrawSmudgeSprayJumbleBlur

Above fingerOffOn

MirrorOffOn

• Draw: Paints the color.
• Smudge: Drags and blends colors along the stroke.
• Spray: Scatters pixels at random. It follows Strength: Full places solid dots; Soft and Faint mix half or a quarter of the color into each dot, so passes build up. See-through ink is always applied whole.
• Jumble: Shuffles the pixels under the brush.
• Blur: Blurs the pixels under the brush.

Size works in all modes. Size 1 is a single pixel in Draw and Smudge. A bigger size makes the brush bigger. Strength sets the coverage of Draw and Spray paint: Full is 100%, Soft is 50% per pass, and Faint is 25% per pass. Smudge, Jumble, and Blur don’t use it, so the row is hidden in those modes.

The stroke

• The stroke uses the color of the pixel where it starts.
• As you drag, that color blends 50% with each pixel it crosses. Long strokes make a smooth blend.
• Spray, Jumble, and Blur keep working while your finger holds still.
• In Smudge, Spray, Jumble, and Blur, holding still doesn’t change the color. Select Draw to set colors by holding still again.
• Smudge, Jumble, and Blur use only the pixels the faces show. A stroke that crosses from one face to the next continues onto that face, and no pixels from the canvas around the faces are used.
• On a Pattern or Ground texture tile in the Pattern studio , every mode wraps round the tile’s edges, so a stroke past one edge comes in at the opposite edge.