To create a new brush
1
Press the right-arrow button in the Brushes palette and choose
New Brush in the pop-up menu.
2
In the New Brush dialog box, adjust the settings for the brush.
For more information, see New brush options, page 31.618.
3
After entering the settings you want, click OK. The new brush
shape appears in the Brushes palette.
To delete brushes from the palette
You can permanently remove brush shapes from the Brushes palette.
If you think you might want to use the brush shape again, you should
first store it in a brushes file so you can later load it back into the pal-
ette. See Saving and loading brushes, page 31.618.
To delete a brush: Select the brush you want to delete. Choose
Delete Brush in the Brushes palette pop-up menu, or Command-click
(Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) a brush in the palette to delete it.
Using a selection to define a brush shape
You can make a new brush shape from a selection in an image. This
lets you create non-elliptical brush shapes.
1
Select all or part of an image; see Selecting pixels in images,
page 33.651.
2
Choose Define Brush in the Brushes palette pop-up menu. The
selection becomes a brush in the Brushes palette. Canvas uses the
shape and lightness values of the selection to define the brush.
Brush shapes do not contain color.
Modifying brush shapes
You can edit any brush shape. For brush shapes created from selec-
tions, you can change only the spacing.
1
In the Brushes palette, double-click the brush shape you want
to modify.
2
In the Brush Options dialog box, adjust the settings you want
and click OK; see New brush options, next.
Brushes
palette
pop-up
menu
New brushes appear in the
Brushes palette
You can select image areas to
make brushes. This image
contains rendered vector objects.