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
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