Saving and loading brushes
You can save brushes in a file, and load brushes from a saved file into
the Brushes palette. Saving brushes to disk lets you customize the
Brushes palette for particular projects or exchange brushes with other
Canvas users. The file format that Canvas uses to save brushes on
disk is also compatible with the file format used by the Photoshop
image-editing program for saving brushes.
To save brushes in a file
1
In the Brushes palette, add or remove brushes until you have
the collection you want to save.
2
Choose Save Brushes in the Brushes palette pop-up menu.
3
In the directory dialog box, type a name for the brushes file,
select a location, and click Save (Mac) or OK (Windows).
To load brushes from a file
When you load brushes, you can replace the current set of brushes
with the contents of the file, or add the brushes to those in the palette.
1
In the Brushes palette, choose one of the following commands
in the pop-up menu:
To replace the current brushes with those in the brushes file,
choose Load Brushes.
New brush options
You create brush shapes by
specifying diameter, hardness,
spacing, roundness and angle.
These same options are avail-
able in the Brush Options dia-
log box.
Diameter. Enter the diameter
in pixels of the new brush.
Hardness. Enter a percentage
to tell Canvas how much of the
brush shape is solid.
Spacing. This percentage sets
the amount of brush overlap
when you drag a painting tool.
Turn off Spacing to make the
brush velocity-sensitive, so it
skips pixels when dragged
fast.
Roundness. Enter 1 to 100. To
create a circle, enter 100.
Angle. Enter a number to
rotate the brush shape.
A Drag to change Roundness.
B Drag to change the Angle.
C Preview of the brush shape.
A B
C