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custom brushes (Pattern, Art, Scatter, Calligraphic or Bristle), a feature that
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Related to the paint tools is the delightful Symbol Sprayer tool with its seven
variants. You can assign a symbol you created—say, a star—to become the paint,
and the tool sprays stars. With the Sprayer’s sub-tools, you can control the
density of spray, randomness, color variation, size variation, and individual
rotation of the stars with the aptly named Styler, Shifter, Scruncher, Screener,
Sizer, Spinner, and Stain tools.
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functions for unexpected results.