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MARCH 11, 2004 Custom Brushes in Painter 8
Saving Brushes Now that you presumably have some blending brushes that you like, you'll want to save them for future use. As I mentioned, to do this, just type Command-S (Mac) or Control-S (Windows) while in the Brush Creator. Name the brush, and it will be saved for your future use. To access it, simply go to the Brush Selector Bar and look in the category from which your base brush was taken. In this case, that's the Airbrush category.  [an error occurred while processing this directive] But you can change the locations of these brushes easily. To do so, quit Painter. Navigate to the Painter folder on your hard drive, and locate the Brushes folder within that directory. Create a new folder for your library, and then create a subfolder with the name of one or more categories for your brushes. You must also create a JPEG image for your category folder with the same name as the category folder. (Each category folder must have a corresponding JPEG image, as seen below.)  Next, locate the brushes you created earlier. (If you've been following along, these are located in the following directory: Corel Painter 8/Brushes/Painter Brushes/Airbrushes.) Each brush has three elements to it: a .nib file, a .stk file and a .xml file. (This may vary on windows systems.) You also want to locate a file that starts with a "c_" (as in "c_daveblender1").   Copy all of these files into their appropriate subcategory folders within your new folder.  Now relaunch Painter. Activate the Brush Selector Bar. Choose the flyaway menu on the right, and then select the Load Brush Library option. In the dialog that pops up, select your library, and click the Load button.  You'll now have access to your brushes in their own library.  Alternately, of course, you can just put your subcategory folder within the main Painter Brushes folder, giving you access to your brushes in addition to the default brushes. (Be sure to move the JPEG with it!) It's up to you. That's it for now. If you have any questions, be sure to visit me in our Painter forum here. Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the editor and producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Apple DVD Studio Pro, Mac OS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Corel Painter, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Related sites: • Animation Artist • Creative Mac • Digital Animators • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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