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The airbrush
- The airbrush pen is a specialty stylus aimed at replicating the ergonomics of a traditional dual action airbrush. Traditional airbrush technique utilizes a choreography of airflow, color volume, and distance. The airbrush pen replicates this style of control, which requires practice to become proficient. It's a little bit like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time. Let's take a look at this thing. So, we'll go back into Photoshop again, and I'm going to load up this little preview that lets us see exactly what is happening with this pen, so you'll be able to see as I move and rotate this around, you can see exactly how it's responding up in the preview, as well as the cursor kind of shows me some angle change. So, let's take a look at this. Firstly, the reason this is shaped like this is this bottom area is replicating the feel of a reservoir, which is normally ink or dye that is going to be sprayed through the airbrush, and what the wheel is emulating is a…
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