Paint how-to guides
Practical guides for working with the spectral paint canvas.
| Guide | Description |
|---|---|
| The paint workbench | The tool palette and its tabs, preset/stamp bins, wheel chords, the under-cursor inspector |
| Paint settings | Open the settings window, and find smoothing, bloom, the overlays, the checker colors, the canvas status and the diagnostics |
| Named areas | Define reusable canvas regions with one-click image import / export |
| Gradients | Drive the brush colour from a list of stops; modulate position along the gradient with pressure, tilt, etc. |
| Stroke engines | Analytic, Sequential and Stamp strokes; Wetness + Trail wet-brush model (supersedes Loaded brush) |
| Expression columns | Formula-driven stroke inputs: your own grid columns over pressure, speed, length, randoms and time |
| Selection & stamps | Constrain painting to a region; capture regions as stamps and paint with them |
| Managing canvases | Hold many canvases on one node and switch between them live — create, rename, duplicate, delete, export, and the local/swarm kinds |
| Canvas responsiveness & performance | What the background render worker gives you: no mid-stroke freezes, crash-proof painting, driver-fault recovery, backend fallback |
| Sharing your canvas | Share one canvas across your paired hubs over the swarm — replication, joining a shared canvas, and what it needs to work |
See also
- Area settings reference — the QSettings schema, useful if you want to script area creation outside the app.
- Gradients YAML schema — the on-disk gradient library format.
- Stroke inputs reference —
every grid column and
stroke.*expression variable with its raw value and normalization.