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Tools Preferences

Painting Cursor

  • Show Cursor - Check this option to show the painting cursor.

  • Select the cursor's appearance for painting. Choose from a circle, a circle with direction, a circle with a crosshair and a crosshair cursor.

  • Show crosshair while painting - Check this option if you want the crosshair cursor to appear by default while painting in Rebelle.

  • Show paint/blend mode in cursor shape - The cursor's appearance changes with the selected paint/blend mode. Uncheck this option to disable the changing appearance of the cursor when Paint / Paint&Mix / Paint&Blend / Blend / Erase mode is enabled in the Preferences.

  • Show pop-up panel with brush properties when using shortcuts - Disable this option if you do not wish to see the information panel pop up next to the cursor when changing the properties (size, loading, opacity, water...) of the brush with shortcuts.

  • Show pop-up panel when changing brush "Size" - Enable this option if you want to see the information panel pop up next to the cursor when changing the size of the brush with a shortcut.

  • Override cursor mode with - Enable this option to use one cursor mode (Circle, Rectangular, Shape or Auto) globally for all brush presets. This setting overrides the brush preset settings for the cursor in the Brush Creator.

  • Change cursor shape according to Tip Tilt - Disable this option if you don't wish the cursor to change according to the Tip Tilt settings.

  • Change cursor size according to Pen Pressure - Disable this option if you don't wish the size of the cursor to change according to the pen pressure.

  • Brush Resize Color - Set the custom color of the brush cursor in resize mode.

Brushes

  • Select the last paintbrush when a color is picked from the palette - Enable this option if you want the last used paintbrush to be automatically selected after picking a color from the color panel.

  • For the Pen Eraser always use the last tool instead of the eraser - Enable this option so that the pen eraser remembers the last used tool.

  • Show wet layer when using the Water or Dry tool - Enable this option if you want the Water and Dry tools to automatically activate the 'Show wet' mode.

  • Always use "Pen Tilt / Rotation" instead of "Follow Trajectory" in Brush Creator - Enable this option so that the brush shape follows the pen tilt or rotation even when "Follow Trajectory" is selected for brush rotation.

  • Save Dirty brush colors to Color history - Enable this option if you do not want the dirty brush colors to get saved into the color history.

  • Automatically switch to Blend mode after using Paint, Paint & Mix, or Paint & Blend mode for wet media - Enable this option to make your painting tool automatically switch to Blend mode after you use Paint, Paint & Mix, or Paint & Blend mode.

  • All Paint tools share the same paint mode - Enable this option if you want to use the same paint mode for all paint tools. When you set a paint mode for one paint tool, this mode will stay selected for the rest of the paint tools. The only exception is when you select a brush that has a saved paint mode - in that case, the saved paint mode rewrites this setting for that selected brush.

Brush Presets

  • Inactive Volume parameters use previous values - Enable this option if you wish to use previously set values for Volume parameters that are inactive (hidden from the UI).

  • Show "Save Changes as Default" warning - When saving the changes made in the brush as default settings, Rebelle gives you a warning that the previous settings will be overwritten. Disable this option if you do not want that warning to pop up every time you save changes as default.

Accelerometer

  • Set the sensitivity of the accelerometer (1-10) - The higher number you set the more sensitive will be the tilt when using the tablet's inclination which results in faster watercolor flow.

Adjust Opacity/Water/Pressure with Keyboard Shortcut

  • Set the sensitivity of adjusting these parameters with the keyboard shortcut set in the Keyboard preferences.

Adjust Brush Rotation with Keyboard Shortcut

  • Set the sensitivity of adjusting brush rotation with the keyboard shortcut set in the Keyboard preferences.

Transformation

  • Set a custom locking angle when rotating a transformed area using the Shift shortcut.

Selection

  • Keep selection after pasting clipboard image - Disable this option if you want the selection to be removed after you paste a clipboard image By default, the selection is kept.

Paint, Mix & Blend Default Pressure Curves

  • Open the Curve Editor to edit the default pressure curves of the painting modes.