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background and foreground colors. The higher the number (percentage) here, the faster
the color varies; a lower number makes the brush take longer to get from one color to the
other. Not all brushes respond to this setting, but for the ones that do, it's a pretty cool
feature.
Figure 12-7
shows how it works.
TIP
If you're a by-the-numbers kind of person, you can click any of the numbers at the
right ends of the sliders in the Brush Settings panel to turn them into text boxes where
you can type in a number instead of using the slider.
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Scatter
means just what it sounds like: how far apart the marks get distributed in your
brushstroke, including how far the marks appear above and below the stroke itself. When
you paint with a brush in Elements, you're actually putting down many repetitions of the
brush shape rather than a simple line. So if you set scatter to a low percentage, you get a
dense, line-like stroke, whereas a higher value creates an effect more like random spots.
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Spacing
controls how far apart Elements lays down the brush marks when you paint—in
other words, how frequently the brush makes a mark along the path of the stroke. A
lower number makes them close together, a higher number farther apart, as shown in
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