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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