Brush tools offer countless ways to work creatively with your images.
For example, you can apply soft- or hard-edged brushstrokes of any color or material,
paint with another image as a source, retouch images to correct colors or contrast,
replace colors, or paint with picture tubes.
Brush tools work only on raster layers, and they produce the best results when applied to grayscale or 16 million-color images.
They are less effective when applied to images of other color depths.
You can choose a variety of brush tools from the Toolbox.
The Brush properties give us the options for adjusting the effect of a brush.
In addition, we can further customize the basic brush settings by specifying additional options on the Brush Variance palette.
Let's get started with the Paint Brush.
The Paint Brush creates strokes of color that simulate strokes from an artist’s paintbrush. list.
There are various brush tips to choose from. Choose a preset brush tip from the drop-down
It’s a multipurpose tool that can be used to edit an image by applying color to areas as small as a single pixel.
A Paint brush can be used to adjust transparency in specific areas or to create a selection.
Let’s take a look at the Paint Brush options.
Shape - specifies the shape of the brush tip.
You can create a rectangular, elliptical, or angled brush tip,
by starting with the round or square shape and modifying it with the Thickness and Rotation options.
Size - determines the size of the brush in pixels.
You can adjust the Size value by using the keyboard as well as by setting the Size control in the Tool Options palette.
Or just press ALT and drag the brush on the canvas.
Hardness determines the sharpness of the brush edges.
A setting of 100 produces the sharpest edge; lower values produce an increasingly softer, fading edge.
Step determines the time interval that elapses between applications of paint,
with each application defined as a single, continuous brushstroke.
Lower values produce a smoother, more continuous appearance,
higher values create a choppier appearance.
Density determines the evenness of coverage produced by the brushstroke (or for the Eraser tool, the evenness of the erasure).
Higher values produce more even coverage; lower values produce spottier coverage, which resembles a spray-painted effect.
Thickness determines the width of the brushstroke.
A setting of 100 produces a brush tip that is completely round or completely square, depending on the Shape setting.
As the Thickness setting decreases, the brush becomes increasingly narrow.
Rotation applies rotation to a non-circular brush tip.
Opacity determines how well the paint covers the image surface.
At 100% opacity, the painted brushstroke completely covers the surface beneath it.
At 1% opacity, the paint stroke is almost completely transparent.
Blend mode determines how painted pixels are blended with pixels on underlying paint layers.
The blend modes are the same as layer blend modes.
Continuous specifies whether paint builds up when multiple brushstrokes
are applied over the same area with opacity set at less than 100%.
Continuous unchecked.
To repaint an area, you must click the Stroke button.
If the Continuous check box is unmarked (the default), each brushstroke over the same area applies more paint.
Stroke lets you build up paint on existing paint strokes that were applied with the Continuous check box marked.
Wet Look Paint mimics wet paint, with soft color inside and a darker ring near the edge.
The effect is more visible with lower values for the Hardness setting.
Smart Edge uses content-aware technology to sample the brush stroke area
and apply a brush stroke only to areas that match the underlying pixels.
This makes it easier to apply brush strokes to or around specific elements in your image.
...without Smart Edge....
...with Smart Edge...
Let’s also open the Brush Variance palette and apply some more adjustments.
The Brush Variance palette allows us to set the brush variance for each of the listed options.
Normal — applies no variance.
Pressure — applies variance to the selected brush attribute (in this case Hue), according to the pressure from a tablet stylus.
...varying the pressure whilst painting with the stylus...
Tilt Angle — applies variance based on the angle between the tablet stylus and the tablet.
Please see the User Guide for more information on the Brush Variance options.
Let's now switch from the Paint brush to the Airbrush.
The Airbrush simulates an airbrush or spray can.
The longer you apply the brush to an area, the more pronounced the effect becomes.
When using the Airbrush tool, you should set Density to values lower than 100.
Rate determines the rate at which the Airbrush tool applies paint (from 0 to 50).
A value of 0 applies a consistent amount of paint, even when the speed of the brushstroke varies.
Higher values apply more paint when the brush slows down or pauses.
When painting with paint brushes, drag the brush in the image to apply foreground color.
To apply background color, hold down the right mouse button and drag.
The Warp Brush
Instead of applying color to an image, the Warp Brush applies a distortion effect.
You can twirl areas of the image, contract or expand parts of the image, and create other interesting effects.
The Picture Tube tool.
The Picture Tubes brush lets you paint with a collection of preset objects.
For example, you can add leaves, butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting,
...or fill an aquarium with fish, or frame a picture with holly.
You can use the picture tubes included with Corel PaintShop Pro or create your own.
The Clone Brush
The Clone Brush lets you edit your image by using parts of the image, or parts of another image, as a paint source.
Right-click to choose the Source.
The Eraser and Background Eraser
The Eraser tool does a straightforward erasing of pixels.
The Background Eraser allows you to move through the background of an image erasing pixels selectively.
This is a great tool for removing an unwanted background area, such as a dull sky for example.
It is very simple to create your own custom brush.
After adjusting the brush properties, these new settings can be captured by saving them as a new brush tip.
To save a custom brush, click the Create Brush Tip button in the brush tip drop-down list.
The Create Brush Tip dialog box can also be opened by choosing File > Export > Custom Brush.
Our new brush now appears in the list of brush tips.
To create a brush tip from a selection, select the area you want to convert into a custom brush.
On the Toolbar, choose a painting tool.
On the Tool Options palette, click the brush tip drop-list to display current brush tips.
Click the Create Brush Tip from Selection button
A preview of the new brush appears in the Create Brush Tip dialog box.
To import a custom brush choose: File > Import > Custom Brush.
To share brush tips with the PaintShop Pro community and friends, Navigate to:
...Documents\Corel PaintShop Pro\18.0\Brushes.
Or, navigate to the folder in which you saved your custom brushes if it is different from the default Brushes folder.
Share the brush files (those with .PspBrush or .PspScript extensions) — for example, by attaching them to an e-mail message.