Scribble
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Scribble is a Generate effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Scribble fills a mask with parallel pencil strokes at whatever angle you choose.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mask | Masks | This layer’s masks | First mask | - |
| Colour | Colour | Each channel 0 to 4, scene-linear | 0.85, 0.16, 0.12, 1 | - |
| Angle | Dial | Any angle; snaps every 15° while a modifier is held | 30° | Degrees |
| Stroke width | Slider | 0.1 to 20; higher | 2 | Pixels at composition size |
| Spacing | Slider | 1 to 200; down to 0.5 and higher | 8 | Pixels at composition size |
| Path overlap | Slider | -50 to 50; any value by typing | 4 | Pixels at composition size |
| Start | Slider | 0 to 100 | 0 | Per cent |
| End | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Wiggle type | Dropdown | Static · Jagged · Wiggly | Static | - |
| Wiggles per second | Slider | 0 to 30; higher | 8 | - |
| Seed | Seed | Any whole number | A fresh random seed per instance | - |
| Opacity | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Composite on original | Checkbox | On or off | On | - |
| Mix | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Blend | Dropdown | Normal · Darken · Multiply · Colour burn · Linear burn · Darker colour · Add · Lighten · Screen · Colour dodge · Lighter colour · Overlay · Soft light · Hard light · Linear light · Vivid light · Pin light · Hard mix · Difference · Exclusion · Subtract · Divide · Hue · Saturation · Colour · Luminosity | Normal | - |
| Matte | Layer | Any layer in the composition | None | - |
| Invert | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Channel | Dropdown | Luminance · Alpha · Red · Green · Blue | Luminance | - |
In the Effect Controls panel:
- Wiggles per second is editable while Wiggle type is anything but Static.
- Matte scales Opacity per pixel: white draws the scribble in full, grey faintly, black nothing at all. Invert reads that matte inverted.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Mask: which of the layer’s masks to fill.
- Colour: the pencil’s colour.
- Angle: direction strokes run.
- Stroke width: how thick a stroke is.
- Spacing: how far apart strokes are laid.
- Path overlap: how far each stroke runs over the mask’s edge.
- Start and End: where the pen begins and stops.
- Wiggle type: how the stroke wobbles.
- Wiggles per second: how frequent the wiggles are.
- Seed: randomises the wiggles.
- Opacity: how strong the pencil is.
- Composite on original: on, the layer the effect is on draws under the scribble.
- Mix: how much of the result replaces the original.
- Matte and Invert drive the strength of the effect from another layer’s brightness; see Effects.