Selecting, managing, and creating brushes

Corel Painter offers an impressive array of realistic and responsive brushes that you can use to apply media to the canvas. For example, you can choose a brush with realistic bristles that apply oil, watercolor, or acrylic paint. You can also choose a dry media brush, such as chalk or charcoal.

This section contains the following topics:

• Understanding brushes
• Searching and selecting brushes
• Filtering brushes
• Marking brushes as favorite
• Acquiring brushes
• Setting basic brush attributes
• Working with brushes using the property bars
• Renaming brush categories and variants
• Saving and deleting brush variants
• Restoring default brush variants
• Creating and deleting brush categories
• Creating and deleting brush libraries
• Importing and exporting brush libraries, categories, and variants
• Importing Photoshop brush images
• Saving a brush look
• Creating and managing brush dabs
• Reference: Painter 2021 Brushes library
• Reference: Natural Media Brushes library

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