User Guide

Corel Painter 185
to save the variant for the captured
dab shape.
5 Click the selector menu arrow and
choose Capture Dab.
6 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, click Size to see
the captured brush dab.
7 If necessary, change the Size,
Squeeze, and Angle settings.
8 Draw with the brush on the
canvas.
If you like the results you’ve
captured, you can save the brush as
a new variant. Refer to “Saving
Brush Variants” on page 183 for
how to save brush customizations
for later use.
You can paint with a captured brush, just as
you would with other brushes.
Creating a New Brush
Category
The brushes that appear as icons on
the Brush selector bar are really
categories for collections of similar
variants. You can add your own brush
categories to the Brush selector bar.
You might want to create a brush
category if you’ve customized a
medium and you want to keep its tools
organized.
To create a new brush category:
1 Draw a small image to use as the
icon for the new brush.
This will appear on the Brush
selector bar, like the default brush
category icons.
2 Choose the Rectangular Selection
tool from the toolbox.
3 Hold down the Shift key and drag
across the image to create a square
selection.
4 Do one of the following:
• On the Brush selector bar, click
the selector menu arrow, and
choose Capture Brush Cate-
gory.
• In the Brush Creator, choose
Brush menu > Capture Brush
Category.
5 In the Capture Brush dialog box,
type a name.
Your new brush and its icon now
appear on the Brush selector bar.
Saving a Brush Look
A Look is a variant that has a paper
texture, pattern, gradient, or nozzle
assigned to it. A variant alone does not
know about underlying texture or
other elements. The Look, on the
other hand, associates additional data
with a particular variant and saves it as
a complete Look. Regardless of a
document’s current libraries, when
you select a Look, you use the
elements that are part of that look. If
the specific libraries are not available,
Corel Painter prompts you to locate
them.
You can save a Look so you can use it
later. A saved Look keeps all variant
settings plus the paper, pattern,
gradient, or nozzle settings.