Paint

Enhanced Photoshop import with layer transparency and blending
Vector-based, nondestructive paint system with high-performance raster mode for rotoscoping
Freehand, polyline and shape-based drawing, animated handwritten strokes, combine or separate strokes, clusters
Animated stroke morphing and text-to-strokes feature
Pressure-sensitive painting tools
Fully animatable and editable brush strokes, shapes and parameters, including interactive brush resizing
Painting with effects including keying
Reshaper effect for interactive freehand selection and manipulation of a shape's geometry, without being constrained to control points
Wireframe preview command for previewing then rendering animated strokes in wireframe mode
Hundreds of Avid DS Nitris preset brushes, styles, effects and textures
Custom brushes and custom preset and stackable effects
Clone and noise tools for single-click scratch, dirt and dropout removal
EPS file import with retained color properties
Rotoscoping and matte creation tools
Paint strokes can be animated by tracking the entire stroke or by applying an unlimited number of trackers to individual stroke points
Independent viewing and operating on R, G, B and Alpha channels
Magic Wand tool for selecting image regions based on RGB or HLS value
Animatable cutouts for selecting and manipulating image regions
Graphics object view for fast timeline-based selection and manipulation of graphics objects
Grouping of paint and graphics objects

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