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The Brushmanager is the central point for the managment of brushes.
Here new brushes can be created and old ones be modified, deleted or
converted.

The functions in the enumerated order:
4.2.13.1 Create brush
With this function you can create a new painting brush.

Available options:
- Kind
Here you can select the kind of brush you want to create. You
therefore have the choice between several types that immitate natural
materials.
- Name
Enter the name, that the brush shall carry lateron, here.
- Size
The size or radius of the new brush in pixels.
- Density
The density respectively the strength of the new brush. The higher
it is the faster the intensity of the draw layer has reached full
intensity.
- Create
Click on this button to create the brush with the settings made.
4.2.13.2 Create new text brush
With this function you can create text brushes, that can be inserted in
the draw layer or become reworked, lateron.

Available options.
- Text
Please enter the text of the text brush here.
- Fontsystem
fxPAINT supports two font sstems - the old, two-colored and
bitmap-based Diskfont-system of the operating system and TTEngine by
Gregorz Kraszewski, which generally delivers a better quality at a much
higher speed. Furthermore it is able to handle the widely spread
TTF-fonts.
- TT Font
If you have selected "TTEngine" as system, you can select from the
installed TTF- fonts, here. As the system has no default directory for
fonts in this format, fxPAINT by default searches in
fxPAINT:Storage/TTFonts/. Of course you can adapt and change this
directory to your own needs in the preferences.
- Fontname and Select font
If you have selected the "Diskfont" system, you can select your
desired font via a standard requester or enter its name manually.
- Fontsize
Enter the size of the font to use for the creation of the
textbrush, here.
- Fett/Kursiv/Unterstrichen
Here you have the possibility to change the style of the text. For
TTEngine these options have no effect, since TTF-fonts mostly provide
different font files for these styles instead of dynamically generating
them.
- Antialias
This option smooths the edges and roundings of text so it looks
clearer and "smoother". For the diskfont-system fxPAINT does this task,
but doesn't have the font data avaiable directly. Thus TTEngine will
mostly generate better results.
- Create
Click on this button to create the brush with the settings made.
4.2.13.3 Delete brush
If you don't require a brush any longer, you can, with exception of the
standard pens which will be loaded again with the next start,
permanently remove it with a click on this button.
4.2.13.4 rPen Tools
The Pentools allow you to perform standard operations on brushes fast
and easily.

In order to perform an operation, choose it first, then set its
level of effect and click on "Perform". The following operations are
available:
Invert
Calculate the negative of a brush for the selected value range. If
you select a level of 100, the exact opposite of the whole brush is
calculated.
Rotate
This function allows you to freely rotate your brush. A level of
100 means a rotation by 360°, level 0 is rotation by 0°, every level
thus has a value of 3,6°. Choose 25 for 90°, 50 for 180° etc.
Silhouette
If you require the silhouette of a brush, make use of this
operation. With the level you can adjust how strong (in pixels + 1) the
calculated silhouette shall be.
Glow
With this you can make any brush glow. The strength of the glowing
depends on the setting of "Level".
Scale 1/10
This operation can be used to rescale a brush by a given factor
devided by 10. Thus to scale it to half its size, select a value of 5,
doubling the brush in size would require a value of 20, etc.
Smooth
This operation allows you to smooth your brushes. The strength of
smoothing can be set by adjusting "level".
Optimize
This operation is fully automated and cuts away superflous parts of
the brush resulting in shortening all calculation times for drawing
operations with this brush
4.2.13.5 Image to brush
This function copies and converts the current image to a brush.
4.2.13.6 Brush to image
This function copies and converts the current brush to an image.
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