user: Describe Brush Types from the Blender manual or Python API, including usage steps and snippets.

assistant: See [Brush Type](../brush/brush_settings.html#sculpt-tool-settings-brush-type).

Available brush types are listed here, together with brushes from the
*Essentials* asset library using them.

Draw
:   Brushes: Paint Hard, Paint Soft, Paint Hard Pressure, Paint Soft Pressure,
    Erase Hard, Erase Soft, Erase Hard Pressure, Erase Pixel Art, Paint Pixel Art.

    The normal brush, draws a swath of color.

Soften
:   Brushes: Blur

    Uses a “blur effect” to soften or sharpen the image.

    Direction
    :   Soften
        :   Is used to paint a blur effect.

            Kernel Radius (2D only)
            :   Blur radius in pixels.

        Sharpen
        :   The Sharpen tool enhances the contrast of the image as you paint over it.

            Sharp Threshold
            :   The Threshold will only apply sharpening to only those pixels that
                differ more than the threshold value from their surrounding pixels.

            Kernel Radius (2D only)
            :   The kernel size controls how big an area the tool searches over is while calculating that difference.

    Blur Mode
    :   The blur kernel type controls how neighboring pixels are weighted when calculating the blur effect.

        Gaussian:
        :   Gaussian will sample the pixels near the center of the brush most.

        Box:
        :   Box samples all surrounding pixels equally.

Smear
:   Brushes: Smear

    When you click, takes the colors under the cursor, and blends them in the direction you move the mouse.
    Similar to the “smudge” tool of *Gimp*.

Clone
:   Brushes: Clone

    Copies the colors from the specified image (or location of the same image) to the active image.

    In 3D projective painting the clone cursor can be set with `Ctrl`-`LMB`.
    In 2D painting the clone can be moved dragging it with `RMB`.

    Clone from Paint Slot (3D projective only)
    :   Use another image as clone source, instead of using the 3D cursor position as the source in the same image.

        Source Clone Slot
        :   This allows you to select an image as a clone source.

    Image (2D only)
    :   Image used as a clone source.

    Alpha (2D only)
    :   Opacity of the clone image display.

Fill
:   Brushes: Fill

    It can be used to fill large areas of the image with the brush color.
    The tool fills adjacent pixels that have a color value similar to the pixel you clicked on.

    Fill Threshold (2D only)
    :   Determines how much the color must be similar to the color of pixel you click to be filled.
        A low *Threshold* only fills very similar in color pixels.
        A higher *Threshold* fills pixels within a broader range of color.

    The *Gradient* type of the Color Picker allows the use of a gradient to fill the image.

    To apply the gradient with the *Fill* brush click `LMB` and drag to define
    the gradient line, or radius if a radial gradient is used (depending on the *Gradient Fill Mode*).

    Gradient Fill Mode
    :   Linear, Radial

Mask
:   Brushes: Mask

    This brush paints gray-scale values on the mask texture
    specified in the [Mask panel](tool_settings/mask.html).
    Any masked surfaces will not be affected by other paint brushes, similar to
    [sculpt mode masking](../sculpting/introduction/visibility_masking_face_sets.html).

    Mask Value
    :   Mask weight, a value of zero means not masked, while one is completely masked.
        Hold `Ctrl` to invert the painted mask value.