Handbook › Keyboard

Change brush size and opacity by dragging

With a keyboard, change the brush where you're looking: hold a key and drag on the canvas, without reaching for a slider.

How to do it

1. Hold D.
2. Drag anywhere on the canvas with a finger, Apple Pencil or the mouse. Right makes the brush larger, left smaller; up makes it more opaque, down less.
3. Let go of D. Nothing was drawn, and the brush keeps its new size and opacity.

Settings

Keyboard Shortcuts

Give Drag Brush Size and Opacity While Held another key, under Brush & Color.

Tips

• The brush's outline shows where you started, at the size it's becoming, with its size and opacity beside it.
• It doubles in size every 200 points to the right, measured from where you started, so dragging back undoes it.
• No keyboard? The side bar's sliders do the same.

Related

• Custom keyboard shortcuts
• Draw straight lines with Shift

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