User Guide

The Brush Creator144
There are three elements to the Brush
Creator: the Randomizer, the
Transposer, and the Stroke Designer.
The Randomizer creates random
brush settings for the selected brush
category and variant.
The Transposer creates new brush
settings based on the transition from
one brush category and variant to
another.
The Stroke Designer lets you control
the size and shape of the media a
brush applies, the way the dabs are
repeated in a stroke, the media
(usually color) that flows from a
brush, and how a brush interacts with
underlying pixels.
To open the Brush Creator:
• Do one of the following:
•Choose Window menu >
Show Brush Creator.
•Press Command + B (Mac
OS) or Ctrl + B (Windows).
To access the Randomizer,
Transposer, or Stroke Designer
pages:
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Brush Creator.
2 Click one of the following tabs:
•Randomizer
•Transposer
• Stroke Designer
Tip
•
Throughout the documentation, the
steps for accessing these pages are replaced
with a direction to go directly to the
particular page; for example, “On the
Stroke Designer page, click General.”
The Main Window
The main window of the Brush
Creator contains three tabs:
Randomizer, Transposer, and Stroke
Designer. Each has its own user
interface.
The other components of the main
window are the toolbox, the preview
grid and window, the Scratch Pad, and
the palettes.
The Toolbox
The Brush Creator toolbox contains
tools, a color picker, and four libraries
for use in designing brush variants.
The Brush Creator toolbox.
Tools
The Brush tool applies brush strokes
to the Scratch Pad, just as it applies
brush strokes to the canvas in Corel
Painter. The Brush tool is selected by
default when you open the Brush
Creator, and it’s set to the brush you
were last using in Corel Painter.
The Rectangular and Oval Selection
tools, and the Lasso tool, let you make
selections on the Scratch Pad, just as
you would in Corel Painter.