The new brush will now appear in your Brush Selection dialog as New Brush (20x20). Open the Brush Selection dialog ( right-click|Dialogs| Brushes) and press the Refresh button. In the Save as Brush dialog, set the Spacing to 15 and set the Description to New Brush.Ħ. Use File|Save as to save the image as xxx.gbr. Rescale it to 20x20 using right-click|Image| Resize. Invert the image with right-click|Image|Colors| Invert. Use the Pencil tool to draw an X inside the image frame.ģ. Create a new image using Image Type: Grayscale and Fill Type: White.Ģ. Normally, you'll want to use low spacing values, but when you paint with special brushes a bit of spacing can be useful.ġ. Change the spacing value to 10 or less (mouse-click the Spacing slidebar and use the arrow keys to set exact values) and see what happens. Now, try a decorative brush like the Guitar pattern. The larger spacing makes it clear that the brush shape is circular, but if you had used the default spacing, you wouldn't be able to see it. Your brush stroke will now consist of a dotted line. Test one of the Circle brushes and set the spacing to 150. If you set the spacing to zero, the brushmarks will create a solid, brush-shaped line. Spacing is the distance between your brush marks. An Opacity of zero gives you total transparency (or invisible paint). With the max value of 100, your brush paints with a solid color. The Opacity slider sets the amount of transparency. If you can't see the whole brush, click and hold on the brush square and the entire brush will appear (and disappear when you release the mouse). The Mode pull-down menu lets you select what kind of mode your brush will use (more information about modes is included in "Modes" starting on page 335). When you select a brush, its name and size in pixels will be displayed at the top of the dialog. First, however, we'll take a look at the Brush Selection dialog. In this section, we'll discuss how to create a brush. Such brushes are not very difficult to make yourself. You may notice some unusual brushes, like artistic text, little flourishes or doodles, etc. The Brush Selection dialog displays all the available brushes. The Brush Selection dialog is accessible from the toolbox ( File|Dialogs| Brushes) or from right-click|Dialogs| Brushes. How to use these basic tools, and how to create your own brushes, palettes, patterns and gradients. Brushes, Gradients, Palettes And Patterns
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