Smudge brush

Smudge drags color. It takes the color where the stroke starts and mixes it into everything the stroke crosses.

The Mode row

Smudge is a mode of the Pen, not a separate tool. In the Paint screen, tap Pen and its settings open. Under Size, Strength, and Smoothing, the Mode row has five options:

← Pen ─

Size

Strength

FullSoftFaint

Smoothing

OffLightNormalHeavy

Mode

DrawSmudgeSprayJumbleBlur

• Draw places pixels.
• Smudge drags them.
• Spray scatters dots. Its own row sets Solid or Misty.
• Jumble shuffles the pixels under the brush.
• Blur averages them.

The Size row works for every mode. Size 1 works on single pixels. Bigger sizes sweep wider. Strength is for Draw: Full covers, Soft mixes half the color in per stroke, Faint a quarter.

The stroke

• The stroke takes the color under its starting pixel.
• As it moves, the carried color mixes half and half with each pixel it passes, so a long stroke fades from one color into the next.
• Spray, Jumble, and Blur keep working while the finger holds still.
• In Smudge, Spray, Jumble, and Blur, holding still does not take a color. Switch back to Draw to take colors again.