You can also cut or keep the vector frame as is.Īt some point, you may want to modify the look of a textured drawing if you suddenly find that your lines look too hard or too light. In Harmony, a special option in the Eraser Tool Properties lets you create a soft edge on your textured lines. When you use the Eraser tool to erase a portion of a textured line, the vector frame is cut straight and you lose the feather created while drawing with the Brush tool. You can also export brush presets and textures, in order to share your default or customized textures and presets with other project collaborators.

In this way, you do not have to import individual image files one-by-one to have the same texture library and brush presets as others who you are collaborating with. xml file that was exported from another project. Harmony also allows you to import textures as an. The replaced texture swatch will no longer be the selected texture, but it will remain in the texture library and not be deleted. It will not, however, replace the texture in lines already drawn. Browsing for a texture file with a brush selected that is already using a paper texture will replace the file currently in use. You can import your custom paper textures in the extended Brush Properties window. It is recommended that you maintain the texture resolution between 100 x 100 pixels and 400 x 400 pixels. Alpha channels are disregarded on import.

A range of file formats are supported-.jpeg. Black appears as 100% opaque, white appears as 100% transparent, and all the shades of grey in between appear as varying degrees of semitransparenty. Colour is not supported and transparency is not supported in the traditional sense. To create your own textured brush, you must prepare your texture file ahead of time, either in Harmony or in a third-party software, such as Adobe Photoshop. You will understand why when you work with bitmap brushes on bitmap layers, where it is possible to have both a textured brush tip and a paper texture. In other words, we are attributing the texture not to the tool, but to the texture of the surface that is revealed when a stroke passes over it. In Harmony, when using a textured brush on a vector layer, the texture of a brush is referred to as the Paper Texture.

In the Brush Tool Properties view, you will find a series of default textured 'brushes', but you can also create and import your own custom collection. In Harmony, you can use the Brush tool to draw bitmap textured lines. Drawing with Textured Brushes on Vector Drawing Layer

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