Controls Reference | Painted Docs

Preview

Action	What it does
Drop an image on the panel	Load it and mix the paint
Click the empty canvas	Use the selected still image, or choose a file
Click the painting	Play or pause the preview
Crosshair button (on hover)	Enter or leave focus mode
Image button (on hover)	Use another image: the selected still, or a file

Focus Mode

Action	What it does
Drag on the painting	Paint a focus stroke
Option-click or right-click a focus stroke	Remove that stroke
Auto	Clear all focus strokes and return to automatic focus

Scrub Bar

Action	What it does
Play button	Play or pause the preview
Drag on the track	Scrub the reveal
Drag the reveal length up or down	Set the reveal length, 1 to 120 seconds
Double-click the reveal length	Follow the active comp’s work area

Brushes

Action	What it does
Click a chip	Paint with that many brushes
Click the last active chip	Remove that brush
Scroll over the chips	Add or remove one brush
Right-click or Option-click an active chip	Open the tint picker for that brush

Painted uses two to six brushes.

Detail Knob

Action	What it does
Drag up or down	Raise or lower Detail
Shift + drag	Fine adjustment
Scroll	Nudge Detail by 2%
Double-click	Reset to 50%

Actions

Control	What it does
Dice button	Reroll: new strokes with the same settings
Paint	Build the painting into a new comp
Shift + Paint	Build the painting into the active comp
Paint while building	Stop, keeping everything built so far

Panel Layouts

Painted rearranges itself to fit the panel.

Side rack. In a wide, short panel the controls move into a rack beside the preview, with the Detail knob, brush chips, Reroll, and Paint stacked top to bottom.

Tiny. In a very small panel only the preview and scrub bar remain. A brush button in the bottom-left corner cycles through the Sketch, Study, and Masterpiece styles, and a round Paint button sits in the bottom-right corner.

Row. Everywhere else the controls sit in a row under the scrub bar. As the panel narrows, the row drops the Detail label, the divider, the Paint label, and finally the reroll button.