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Introduction

This section of the manual will help you get a thorough understanding of TVPaint's basic drawing tools and their settings.

Those tools and settings are regrouped in the Main Panel, the Color Panel, the Tool Panel and the Tool Presets Panel, which you will make extensive use of. Some of those panels have already been quickly covered in the Basic Drawing Panels section of this user guide.

Two panels will especially be used together:

  • The Main Panel, which regroups TVPaint's main tools.
  • The Tool Panel, which can be seen as a polymorphic panel whose content changes depending on the Main Panel tool being selected.
    • If the Main Panel selected tool relies on a brush, the Tool Panel will allow you to select one of TVPaint's basic brushes and tweak this brush's settings.
    • If the Main Panel selected tool does not rely on a brush, the tool panel will allow you to tweak this tool's own settings.

Some of the Tool Panel's features will be covered when describing the Main Panel's tools, while brushes' settings will be explained in the Tool Panel chapter of this section.

A chapter on drawing Guides will close this section.