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Using the touch ring

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Using the touch ring

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- Take a look at any software application user interface, and you'll find two basic types of controls. The first is an absolute control, which controls only set values. This includes interface elements like checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-down lists. These elements control choices like on or off, visible or hidden, or small, medium, or large. Express keys are perfect for this type of control. The second type of control is a relative control where a specific value within a continuous range of values can be selected. This includes interface elements like sliders, which adjust choices like brush size, opacity, percentage and canvas angle. As we'll see, the touch ring is perfect for selecting relative values. Let's take a look. So if you haven't already figured it out, the touchring is a little round gizmo on your screen which actually is very useful, you can see right here, I'm using it in this case to rotate the screen. But it can be used for a number of different things. Once you've…

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