Create Your Own Brushes

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BRUSH INTRO
In this tutorial I am going to show you how I make psp brushes. I had intended to make this tutorial along time ago. I think I had sort of dreaded doing it for the simple fact I was worried if could explain how to make psp brushes without confusing everybody?! lol! Don't get me wrong, once you know how to make them, they are a piece of cake to make. So if you have any questions about this tutorial, please us our contact form and we will be more than happy to help you out.

HOW TO MAKE BRUSHES
In this tutorial, we are going to start out with a very simple basic image. We are going to turn a circle into a brush. And we are going to use a white background 102 X 116 (keep in mind that it can be made from selections with a width and height of up to 255 by 255 pixels). So first step would be go to File then New, set your settings to how I have mine:

Go the preset shapes in the menu and select Ellipse, makin sure that Retain style is not checked, Antialias and Create as vector are checked, the Line width is set to 1 and the Line style is set for a solid line. Over on the color pallette on the right hand side of the screen set your Styles to black on top then null on the bottom (meaning the circle with the slash through it). If you wanted a solid circle, you would have changed the bottom to black instead of null. Draw a circle in the center of the white background. You are now able to manipulate the look of the circle or move it up and down since you are using vector mode. Play with the cirlce till you get what you are looking for. Then go to the top of Psp and go to Layers then choose Convert to Raster Layers. You can add more layers or do what you will with the circle, but for now, I am going to keep it simple and leave it at the one circle. Then go back up to Layers and choose Merge then choose Merge all layers. Now we need to go to the top of Psp and click on Selections and choose Select All. This will active the whole image. Now go over to the left hand side in psp in the menu and find the paint brush, when you place your cursor over it, it will say paint brush. Left click on the paint brush and then choose tool options. A box will pop up and click on the top right had side on the paint brush and choose custom, like so:

A box will come up, and then click on the create button. Like this:

Now you are finished creating your brush! But wait, you are not quite done yet! You now need to name your brush, if you don't then your brushes may overwrite themselves. Just minimize your psp screen and go into c drive/program files/jasc paintshop pro/brushes in there you will find an icon named, UBrush.jbr file. Simply right click on that icon and choose rename and rename the brush anything you want, I named mine vccircle Repeat this process each time you make a new brush. Now! You are done! Keep in mind, it needs to be done on a white background and make the image with a solid color like black. Color shouldn't really be an issue when making it, because once you get the brush made, you can change the color in your color palette to anything you like. Also another helpful hint, use a raster layer before you apply your brush for better effects, if that part confuses you, go read up on raster layers in a previous tutorial.