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Within our brushes we can change the hardness of our brush actually making our brush a bit
softer or a bit harder depending on how we want to paint with it. So if we look at our
screen here we can see that I already have a brush selected and it's at a 40 percent,
or a 40 pixel here. If I come down here you can see my harness. My harness is set at 100
percent. I can actually, well let's leave it set at 100 percent first. This is our straight
100 percent line. If I come over here and select this again I can actually bring this
down, actually I'm going to key it in, I've already selected, let's key it in to 50 percent.
Actually I have keyed in at 40 percent, either way. When I brush it you can see its got this
faded edge going onto it. Not quite as clear as this one right up here and this is really
good if you are painting an object and you want to get that nice blending around the
edges in here. Let's grab another color here. Let's go with blue. We're going to lay this
blue right on top of this gold color we have here and as you can see it kind of blends
the two together. Giving it a softer edge. So if you really want to get into the painting
aspect of it. This is a really great brush to use or a great option to use on your brushes
and know how to use. Another way to change the hardness of your brush is to hold down
shift and using the same keys as you used to increase your brush size or decrease your
brush size, in your square parentheses, you can actually move it up or down. As you can
see it right here my pallet as it gets softer or harder how soft or hard it would be. Bring
it down. There you go. That's a very soft, fine, almost airbrush type style. So, remembering
your shortcut keys is a great way to change the hardness of it, especially if you are
doing a massive painting if you are getting really into the whole classical painting style
of it. So play around with it and have fun and enjoy.