User Guide

Customizing Brushes 265
To copy a variant to a different brush category
1 Choose the brush variant you want to copy from the Brush Selector bar.
2 Click the selector menu arrow, and choose Copy Variant.
3 In the Copy Variant dialog box, choose the destination brush category from the
pop-up menu.
The brush variant is copied to the selected category. (Remember to delete the
variant in the category from which it was copied.)
You can also copy brush variants at the root of the category folder by copying
the XML files to the desired category. Use this method to save time when you
need to copy multiple files.
Capturing Brush Dabs
You can create your own brush dab shapes. Any shape is possible.
When you’ve created a shape you like, select and capture it.
To create a brush dab shape
1 On a white background, draw a brush shape in black.
Use shades of gray to define what you wish to be partially transparent areas of the
brush.
To follow stroke direction, a captured brush set must face toward the right side.
2 Choose the Rectangular Selection tool from the toolbox .
3 Drag across your brush shape to create a square selection.
Corel Painter uses the selected area to map brush size. When the brush is created,
this area is sampled to compute each brush dab.
When the original area must be scaled to the size of the brush dab, sampling can
appear aliased. The greater the scaling, the more aliasing is apparent. To prevent