The Brush tool, Clone Stamp tool, and Eraser tool are all paint tools. You use each in the Layer panel to apply paint strokes to a layer.

Each paint tool applies brush marks that modify the color or transparency of an area of a layer without modifying the layer source.Įach paint stroke has its own duration bar, Stroke Options properties, and Transform properties, which you can see and modify in the Timeline panel. Each paint stroke is, by default, named for the tool that created it, with a number that indicates the order in which it was drawn.Īt any time after you draw a paint stroke, you can modify and animate each of its properties using the same techniques that you use to modify the properties and duration of a layer. You can copy paint stroke path properties to and from properties for mask paths, shape layer paths, and motion paths. (See Creating shapes and masks and Add, edit, and remove expressions.) For even more power and flexibility, you can link these properties using expressions. To show only selected paint strokes in the Timeline panel, select paint strokes and press SS.(Clone Position) change for subsequent strokes to match the movement Īligned in the Paint panel to make the position of the sample point To open or close the Paint panel and Brushes panel when a paint tool is selected, click the Toggle The Paint Panels button.To hide a paint stroke from view (and from rendered output), deselect the Video switch for the paint stroke.To target a specific instance of the Paint effect for the addition of new paint strokes, choose from the View menu at the bottom of the Layer panel.To reorder an instance of the Paint effect to interleave it with other effects, drag the effect to a new location in the stacking order in the Timeline panel.To reorder paint strokes within an instance of the Paint effect, drag a Paint stroke to a new location in the stacking order in the Timeline panel.To rename a paint stroke, select the paint stroke in the Timeline panel and press Enter on the main keyboard (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) or right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the name and choose Rename. Of the Clone Stamp tool in the target Layer panel.

Select Lock Source Time to clone a single sourceįrame (at composition time Source Time) deselect Lock Source Time Target layer to make a field of flowers, using one clone stroke Whole cow-which would be difficult to do in one continuous stroke-andĭeselect Aligned to copy one flower into dozens of places in the Sample point each time you drag again to create a new clone stroke.Įxample, select Aligned to use multiple clone strokes to copy one Strokes, meaning that you begin painting on pixels from the original The Aligned option causes the sample point to stay the same between With the Aligned option selected, you can use multiple strokes to To clone subsequent frames, with a time offset (Source Time Shift)īetween the source frame and the target frame.

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