Creating a brush & saving a brush

Creating a brush is as simple as ever. But it involves little patients. Lets create a brush and save it. Follow the given below example.

1. Open Photoshop Application (whatever version you have, but, i used Photoshop 5.5). Open New document by pressing Ctrl+N. Open dialog box appears. Enter dimensions (Dimensions: Width=100, height=100 and Mode=RGB) as entered that was shown in the given below fig-1.


fig-1

2. Create a new layer by pressing Shift+Ctrl+N.

3. Now choose the brush tool and choose the color(you can choose any color as you like) and choose the brush type as shown below ie., fig-2. And just click on the document (so that it appears as a dot).


fig-2

4. Now, right click on the Layer Pallette and choose "Select Layer Transparency" as shown below.


fig-3

5. It's time to define it. So, click on the brush pallette as shown below. Select "Define Brush" to define it.


fig-4

6. That's it. Brush was defined as showned in the fig-5.


fig-5

7. This is how one can define their own brushes. After defining, it's time to save a brush or to save all the defined brushes.

8. To save a brush or set of brushes, first of all you have to do is just delete unwanted brush/brushes. To delete the brush or brushes, place the mouse pointer on the brush pallette and press Ctrl+Mouse Click (left button). Mouse pointer Changes to sessors. Delete unwanted brush/brushes by keeping wanted brush/brushes for saving. Now, after keeping all wanted brush(s), click on the brush pallette's position shown in the figure. Now, select "Save Brush". Give it a name and click Ok to save.



9. Tha's it! Now Happy!!!

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