Digital Painting Digital Painting Brushes and Textures 2

Question 1

What does 'pressure sensitivity' allow when using a stylus on a drawing tablet?

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Pressure controls brush size, opacity, or flow based on how hard the stylus is pressed

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Pressure changes the canvas zoom level

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Pressure switches between brush presets automatically

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Pressure changes the active layer

Question 2

What is the advantage of using a 'custom brush' made from a photo or texture in digital painting?

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It allows complex organic or textured marks to be applied quickly that would be difficult to paint manually

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It permanently changes the canvas background

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It automatically colorizes black-and-white images

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It replaces the need for layers

Question 3

Which blending brush in Photoshop picks up and spreads existing paint without adding new color?

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Mixer Brush

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Clone Stamp tool

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Dodge tool

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Healing Brush

Question 4

In digital painting, what does the 'stabilizer' or 'line smoothing' feature do?

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Reduces jitter in brushstrokes by smoothing hand tremors for cleaner lines

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Prevents the canvas from scrolling while painting

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Locks brush settings to prevent accidental changes

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Stabilizes the file autosave intervals

Question 5

What is a 'texture overlay' technique in digital painting?

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Placing a photographic texture image on a layer set to a blending mode to add surface detail

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Painting directly on a texture file

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Removing texture from a painting

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Exporting textures for 3D models

Question 6

How does the 'wet mix' or 'color mixing' mode in a brush affect painting?

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It causes the brush to blend its color with existing canvas colors as you paint, simulating wet paint mixing

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It restricts the brush to only one preset color

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It converts all colors to grayscale while painting

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It locks the background layer