User Guide

Chapter 5: Painting And Image Editing
save brushes on disk is also compatible with the file format used by the Photoshop image-editing
program for saving brushes.
1. In the Brushes palette, add or remove brushes until you have the collection you want to save.
2. Choose Save Brushes in the menu.
3. In the directory dialog box, type a name for the brushes file, select a location, and click OK.
To load or append brushes from a file:
When you load brushes, you can replace the current set of brushes with the file or append the
brushes to the current palette.
1. Choose one of the following commands in the menu:
To replace the current brushes with the file: Choose Load Brushes.
To add the brushes in the file to the current palette: Choose Append Brushes.
2. In the directory dialog box, locate the brushes file you want to open and click OK.
Selecting colors for painting
Painting tools use the foreground or background color, or both. In the Toolbox, instead of a pen ink
icon for the foreground, a brush icon appears when you select a painting tool. The brush icon shows
the foreground color, and the bucket icon shows the background color.
You can use any solid color for painting, including multicolored inks, such as gradients, symbols,
textures, pattern, or hatch inks. Also, if you choose a spot color and edit pixels with a painting tool,
Canvas converts the spot color to the image color mode; i.e., RGB, CMYK, etc. (see "Image modes for
Canvas paint objects" on page 435).
You can arrange paint objects in a document with vector and text objects that use spot
colors, but only the vector and text objects will produce spot color separations.
To swap the foreground and background colors:
Press the “X” key while using a painting tool.
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