.. meta:: :description: The Deform Brush Engine manual page. .. metadata-placeholder :authors: - Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier - Scott Petrovic :license: GNU free documentation license 1.3 or later. .. index:: Brush Engine, Deform Brush Engine, Deform, Liquify .. _deform_brush_engine: =================== Deform Brush Engine =================== .. image:: /images/icons/deformbrush.svg The Deform Brush is a brush that allows you to pull and push pixels around. It's quite similar to the :ref:`liquify_mode`, but where liquify has higher quality, the deform brush has the speed. Options ------- * :ref:`option_brush_tip` * :ref:`option_deform` * :ref:`blending_modes` * :ref:`option_opacity_n_flow` * :ref:`option_size` * :ref:`option_rotation` * :ref:`option_airbrush` .. _option_deform: Deform Options -------------- .. figure:: /images/brushes/Krita_deform_brush_examples.png 1: undeformed, 2: Move, 3: Grow, 4: Shrink, 5: Swirl Counter Clock Wise, 6: Swirl Clockwise, 7: Lens Zoom In, 8: Lens Zoom Out These decide what strangeness may happen underneath your brush cursor. Grow This bubbles up the area underneath the brush-cursor. Shrink This pinches the Area underneath the brush-cursor. Swirl Counter Clock Wise Swirls the area counter clock wise. Swirl Clock Wise Swirls the area clockwise. Move Nudges the area to the painting direction. Color Deformation This seems to randomly rearrange the pixels underneath the brush. Lens Zoom In Literally paints a enlarged version of the area. Lens Zoom Out Paints a minimized version of the area. .. figure:: /images/brushes/Krita_deform_brush_colordeform.png Showing color deform. Deform Amount Defines the strength of the deformation. .. figure:: /images/brushes/Krita_deform_brush_bilinear.png Bilinear Interpolation Bilinear Interpolation Smoothens the result. This causes calculation errors in 16bit. Use Counter Slows down the deformation subtlety. .. figure:: /images/brushes/Krita_deform_brush_useundeformed.png Without 'use undeformed' to the left and with to the right. Use Undeformed Image Samples from the previous version of the image instead of the current. This works better with some deform options than others. Move for example seems to almost stop working, but it works really well with Grow.