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Panel Tools

The Tools panel gives you quick access to the painting tools and other functions. Close & reopen the Tools panel from the Window menu or by tapping the F3 shortcut.

Collapse Panel - Click to collapse the panel. This option is present on every panel.

Tools Panel Menu - Click to open the Tools panel menu. You can close the panel from this menu. You can re-open this and any panel by choosing it in the Window menu.

Painting Tools

There are eight paint wet and dry media tools in Rebelle:

  • Oils & Acrylics;
  • Express Oils;
  • Watercolors;
  • Inks;
  • Pencils;
  • Pastels;
  • Markers;
  • Airbrushes; and
  • Favorite brushes.

Tools can be selected from the Tools Panel and also by using a keyboard shortcut. By tapping or holding the appropriate key, a tool is selected for use. If you hold a key, the selection returns to the previously selected tool upon key release. If tap the appropriate key, the corresponding tool will be selected until you change it.

Tip

All keyboard shortcuts can be changed by choosing Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. Further information on how to do so is provided under the Keyboard Shortcuts section of this manual.

Tools

Blend - Blends together colors and brush stamps. (shortcut: tap or hold N)

Smudge & Liquify - Drags and distorts colors and brush stamps without blending them or pushes, pulls, rotates, reflects, puckers, and bloats any area of an image. (shortcut: tap or hold S)

Clone - Duplicates colors and brush stamps in a new location on the same layer. (shortcut: tap Shift + C to activate the tool, tap and hold Alt to select the clone source)

Eraser - Erases color and brush stamps. (shortcut: tap or hold E or use your stylus' eraser)

Tip

You can also select the Eraser Tool by tapping or holding the button on your tablet's stylus (i.e. the tablet pen). This is subject to the type of stylus you're using and to its configuration in the operating system.

Fill - Fills in areas that are either blank or that have existing marks of a similar color with a single color, gradient, or pattern. (shortcut: tap L)

Pick Color - Selects a color from your canvas. (shortcut: tap or hold I, or hold Alt)

Water - Applies water or oil to a specific part of the canvas wetting any brush stamps on it. (shortcut: tap or hold W)

Dry - Removes water or oil from a specific part of the canvas drying any brush stamps on it. (shortcut: tap or hold Y)

Blow - Blows wet colors and drips across the canvas. (shortcut: tap or hold O)

Selection - Selects areas or marks on the canvas, typically to carry out operations on the selected areas. (shortcut: tap M)

Transform - Moves, scales, rotates, flips, warps, deforms the proportions or changes the perspective of selected areas or entire layers. (shortcut: tap T)

Canvas Size / Image Size - Resizes or crops the canvas across all layers.
Hit Ctrl + Alt + C (on Windows) or Cmd + Alt + C (on macOS) to activate the Canvas Size.
Hit Ctrl + Alt + I (on Windows) or Cmd + Alt + I (on macOS) to activate the Image Size.

Undo - Undoes the last operation performed. (shortcut: Ctrl + Z on Windows / Cmd + Z on macOS)

Redo - Used after Undo, redoes any operation. (shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Z on Windows / Cmd + Shift + Z on macOS)

Note

Undo and Redo do not have an impact on operations made to the interface (e.g., moving a panel, adding a color to a Color Set, etc.). They also do not impact preference changes or options like selecting a Color Profile.