Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
In the Tool Options area, click the brush thumbnail to open the Brush panel and then,
in the panel's upper right, click the four-line square and choose Save Brush. Elements
asks you to name your brush; you don't have to, but named brushes are easier to keep
track of. The name will appear as pop-up text when you put your cursor over the
brush's thumbnail in the Brush panel.
4. Click OK .
The brush shows up in the Brush panel at the bottom of the current list of brushes. If
you make lots of custom brushes, you may want to create a special set for them using
the Preset Manager (see Stuff from the Internet ).
Deleting a brush is pretty straightforward: Select it in the Brush panel and then, in the panel's
upper right, click the four-line square and choose Delete Brush. Or you can Alt-click/Option-
click the brush's thumbnail in the panel. (When you hold down the Alt/Option key, the cursor
turns into a pair of scissors; simply click with the scissors to delete the brush.)
You can also select something in an image and save it as a brush, as the next section ex-
plains.
Special Brushes
So far you've learned about brushes that behave pretty much as brushes do in the real
world—they paint a stripe of something, whether that's color, light, or even transparency.
But in the digital world, a brush doesn't have to be just a brush. With some of Elements'
brushes, you can paint stars, flowers, disembodied eyeballs, gravel, or even rubber ducks
with just one stroke, as shown in Figure 12-10 .
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