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Larger previews
Magnify brushes, marks and motions under the pointer, or inspect them in a separate moving preview.
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The library has moving previews for brushes, marks and motions. Inspecting one leaves your current brush selected.
The library has moving previews for brushes, marks and motions. Inspecting one leaves your current brush selected.
With a mouse or trackpad, hover over Wet Round. Magnification, the default, enlarges it and its closest neighbours in place. Inspecting leaves your current brush selected.
Press and hold Wet Round for a larger preview. The Use button applies it; simply looking does not change your brush.
Choose Wet Round when you are ready. Previewing kept the old brush in hand until this selection; now the library closes with the new brush ready to paint.
Choose Wet Round when you are ready. Previewing kept the old brush in hand until this selection; now the library closes with the new brush ready to paint.
The wheel enlarges the whole wedge. Neighbouring wedges make room, and only the outer wedges above it move outward. Your selected brush stays the same.
Move across the wheel and the enlargement follows like a wave. Earlier wedges settle back as the next ones expand. A faded end means there are more previews to scroll to.
Settings has a Hover previews choice. Magnification enlarges the stroke and nearby previews in place; Separate preview opens a card instead. Off keeps the small previews.
Settings has a Hover previews choice. Magnification enlarges the stroke and nearby previews in place; Separate preview opens a card instead. Off keeps the small previews.
Choose Separate preview and hover over a brush on the wheel. The card opens beyond the rings, over the canvas, so the wheel never hides it.
Choose Separate preview for when you connect a mouse or trackpad. On touch screens, press and hold still gives a separate preview in any hover mode.
In Actions → Settings → Brush previews, choose how a mouse or trackpad enlarges brush, mark and motion previews:
| Hover previews | What happens |
|---|---|
| Magnification | Library previews grow with their nearest neighbours. In the wheel, the whole wedge expands and adjacent wedges make room, following the pointer like a Dock. Only overlapping outer wedges move outward. This is the default. |
| Separate preview | A larger moving card opens beside the control, with the preview's name. From the wheel, the card opens beyond the rings, over the canvas, so the wheel never covers it. |
| Off | Hover leaves the small previews alone. |
This works in the brush library, wheel, quick settings and motion gallery. Hovering never selects a brush or changes your painting. Click or tap the original control to choose it.
Wheel enlargement fits the available screen space. Scrollable wheel rings and horizontal library and paper rows fade only at ends where more content is hidden.
On touch screens, press and hold a brush, mark or motion in the library. The larger preview opens with a Use action; tap outside to dismiss it. On the wheel, a finger held on a stroke shows its larger moving card above the rings, where your finger doesn't cover it, and lifting closes it; on iPhone the hold also picks it and keeps the rings open, to compare. A finger never magnifies in place. Both work whatever the Hover previews choice, even Off. A Plus effect look still opens the Plus offer when you choose Use.
Previews reuse the same cached frames as their thumbnails. Reduce Motion holds each preview still, with two later moments faded behind it as a trail, so moving brushes still look different, and removes the magnification transition.
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