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/*title_start*/ZBrush's Palettes/*title_end*/
/*text_start*/As an artist, you make a number of choices, whether painting with a digital brush or a "real-world" brush.

For your brush, you choose such elements as \C020202size\C484848, \C020202shape\C484848 and \C020202texture\C484848 ... for the paint, you choose such elements as \C020202color\C484848, \C020202material\C484848 and \C020202density\C484848.

As you paint, all these visual elements combine on the canvas, forming an overall look carefully constructed by you, the artist. ZBrush provides important advantages because all these elements (and more) are under your control at all times.

In some simplified painting programs, these elements exist merely as modifiers for predefined tools. In ZBrush, each element is chosen from a distinct, separate palette. For a basic paintbrush, you can choose color from the \C020202Color\C484848 palette ... material, from the \C020202Material\C484848 palette ... shape, from the \C020202Alpha\C484848 palette ... size and intensity from the \C020202Draw\C484848 palette. You can even choose such elements as \C020202Stroke\C484848 type and certain modes of application.

\C020202What's the advantage for the artist?\C484848 ZBrush provides more than rigidly-defined tools with limited modifiers; it gives you complete control over every single visual element of your artwork. This gives you the freedom to experiment with different applications for each tool.

A paintbrush can paint in the expected manner, applying continuous strokes of color. By simply changing the stroke type, it becomes a radically different tool: applying a single instance of an image, or scattering multiple shapes and colors along the stroke path, for example.
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