Paint
Paint directly on images with a freehand brush. Supports brush, eraser, eyedropper, and clone stamp tools.
The Paint node provides interactive freehand painting directly within the graph. Choose from Brush, Eraser, Eyedropper, and Clone Stamp tools. When connected to an image input, you paint over it; without an input, you get a blank canvas.
Output Mode controls whether you get the composited result (paint over image) or just the paint layer by itself, which is useful for creating overlays or corrections separately.
The brush you paint with
Section titled “The brush you paint with”Paint uses the one app-wide current brush, not a brush stored on this node. Selecting a different Paint node no longer changes the size, hardness, or color you are painting with. Painting a stroke is what records a brush into the node.
Pick a brush from the Brush Library, edit it in Brush Studio, or use the toolbar chip beside the quick controls. A brush is a full definition (tip, grain, stroke path, taper, dynamics, blend mode) rather than a size and hardness pair, and it responds to pen pressure, tilt, and twist on a supported tablet. The Stabilization control smooths hand jitter as you draw. See Brushes for the whole system.
The node’s own parameters carry a few stroke-level controls of their own: Brush Spacing (dab spacing as a fraction of brush size), Brush Flow (per-dab buildup within one stroke, still capped by Brush Opacity), Brush Jitter (random per-dab positional scatter), and Speed Affects Size with its own min and max.
The Brushes list
Section titled “The Brushes list”Below the stroke count, a Brushes section lists every distinct brush this node has painted with, with a preview thumbnail, stroke count, and approximate size. Each row’s … menu offers Make Active, Save to Library, Restyle these strokes (re-render them with your current brush), and Delete these strokes. A Restyle All Strokes… button does the whole node at once, broken down by tool so erasing and cloning are not touched unless you ask.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”Pins
Output
Output width (locked when image input is connected)
Output height (locked when image input is connected)
Strokes
Active editing tool
Brush diameter in pixels
Edge hardness
Stroke opacity per dab
Brush RGB color as a 3-element float array in [0,1]
Show a brush ring preview overlay during painting
Stroke list (recorded via the canvas manipulator)
Dab spacing, as a fraction of brush size
Per-dab paint buildup within one stroke (overlapping dabs still cap at Brush Opacity)
Random per-dab positional jitter
Faster strokes place bigger/smaller dabs
Dab size multiplier at zero speed
Dab size multiplier at/above the engine's speed reference
Compositing
- Composited: paint over input.
- Paint Layer Only: paint strokes only.
Usage Tips
Section titled “Usage Tips”- Switch tools with keyboard shortcuts:
B(Brush),E(Eraser),I(Eyedropper),C(Clone Stamp). - Use the Eyedropper tool to pick colors from the image before painting, or click a color in the Swatches panel to set the brush color directly.
- Paint Layer Only mode lets you create a separate correction layer for compositing.
- Reduce brush hardness for soft, airbrushed strokes.
[and]change size (auto-repeating when held),Shiftwith either changes hardness, and both are undoable as one step per gesture. - Clone Stamp paints with your full brush definition, so an image tip’s shape, grain, taper, and pressure response all apply.
Alt+Clicksets the source; the offset locks on your first stroke afterward and stays aligned from then on. - Painted the whole thing with the wrong brush? Make the right one current and use Restyle All Strokes rather than repainting.