Brushing modes: Persistent, Transient, Undo These are three different brushing modes. Persistent: When you brush a point, it retains its new color or glyph when the brush is no longer over that point. Transient: As the brush moves off a point, it returns to the color and glyph it had before the brush covered it. Undo: When Undo is activated, moving the brush over a point that was painted during the preceding Persistent brushing action restores that point to the state it had just before it was brushed.