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title: "Focal Shift"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/html/5_sculpting-and-painting_brush-5-focal-shift.html"
section_path: "Sculpting | Modeling | Painting > Brush Customization > Focal Shift"
description: "Focal Shift controls the inner falloff of the brush tip shape within the cursor."
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# Focal Shift

**Focal Shift** controls the inner falloff of the brush tip shape within the cursor.

![Image: 2024-5-sculpting-painting-brush-customization-focal-shift-header.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-5-sculpting-painting-brush-customization-focal-shift-header.png)

> **Note:** Press and hold the **Focal Shift** icon, then drag your pencil or finger up and down to adjust.

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## Overview

- **Focal Shift** controls your brush tip's falloff of at a range of (-100 / 0 / +100).
- The cursor has two circles. The space between these circles is the Focal Shift of the brush tip.

> **Note:** Positive values create more falloff of the brush tip shape between the cursor circles. Negative values create less falloff.

[Video: 2024-5-sculpting-painting-brush-customization-focal-shift-example.mp4](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Videos/2024-5-sculpting-painting-brush-customization-focal-shift-example.mp4)

> **Note:** When an alpha is selected and **DragRect Stroke** is selected, the Focal Shift effect can be seen clearly at different **Focal Shift** slider settings.
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> Set **Focal Shift** to -100 to draw an alpha shape without falloff. This yields a crisp alpha shape.

> **Note:** ZBrush for iPad's **Focal Shift** and other draw-related settings work the same as in ZBrush desktop. Learn more in our external ZBrush [Draw](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Default.htm#html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/draw/draw.html) documentation.