Corel PaintShop Pro Help | Creating brush tips and presets

Creating brush tips and presets

By modifying the brush options, you can create your own brush tips to use with the painting tools. When you create a brush tip, all options selected for the brush are saved, including the brush shape, step, density, thickness, size, hardness, and rotation settings. You can also include the variance settings in creating a brush tip. The settings that you save can be applied to any tool that has a brush tip control in the Tool Options palette.

You can also make a selection, and then use the selection to create a custom brush with a width and height of up to 999 × 999 pixels.

In addition to brush tips, you can create brush presets. When you create a preset, all settings specified for a particular tool are saved, including all of the parameters and variance settings. The tool preset is available only when you select that particular tool.

To create a brush tip

Edit tab

1 On the Tools toolbar, choose a painting tool.

2 On the Tool Options palette, modify the settings for the brush.

3 Click the brush tip drop-list

to display current brush tips.

4 Click the Create Brush Tip button

in the brush tip drop-list.

5 Complete the fields in the Create Brush Tip dialog box.

6 Click OK.

The new brush appears in the brush tip drop-list. You can use the new brush with any of the painting tools that display this drop-list.

You can also open the Create Brush Tip dialog box by choosing File Export Custom Brush.

To save the new brush in a folder other than the default Brushes folder, click Edit Paths in the Create Brush Tip dialog box. For more information on changing file locations, see Setting file locations.

To create a brush tip from a selection

Edit tab

1 Make a selection of the area you want to convert into a custom brush.

2 On the Tools toolbar, choose a painting tool.

3 On the Tool Options palette, click the brush tip drop-list

to display current brush tips.

4 Click the Create Brush Tip from Selection button

A preview of the new brush appears in the Create Brush Tip dialog box.

5 Enter a name for the brush in the Name box.

6 Select a step value.

7 Click OK.

The new brush appears in the brush tip drop-list. You can use the new brush with any of the painting tools that appear in the drop-list.

To create a brush preset

Edit tab

1 Choose a painting tool and modify any of the tool options.

2 On the Tool Options palette, click the Presets drop-list.

3 Click the Save preset button

The Save Preset dialog box appears.

4 Type a name for the brush preset.

Note: You cannot use the names "Default" or "Last Used."

5 To enter additional preset information, click Options, and then enter information in the Author, Copyright, and Description fields.

6 Click OK.

You can exclude any of the current brush settings from the preset by clicking the Save icon associated with those settings in the Preset Includes list. A white "X" appears over the icon, indicating that this brush setting will not be saved with the preset.