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Create a Texture Brush

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Once a Do-It-Yourself brush is created, a texture can be added to it, creating a texture brush. You can set the shape and/or color and make a texture from a rotated stroke or capture something on your canvas to use as a texture. See Create a Do-It-Yourself brush.

Creating a texture brush

In the Brush Properties of a Do-It-Yourself brush, you can create a texture brush by sketching a design and capturing it. The captured texture can also be rotated. When capturing a texture, one of the following Custom Texture settings can be selected:

- Shape + Colors – Uses the current paint color, as well as the selected shape, to create your texture. Whenever the texture brush is used, it uses the color set during creation.
- Shape – Creates a texture brush with no assigned color. Each time the texture brush is used, a different color can be set.
- Rotate to Stroke – Dynamically rotates the texture in the direction of the stoke.

Creating a texture brush

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1. Create a new stroke or import an image to use as a texture.
2. Create a Do-It-Yourself brush.
3. With a Do-It-Yourself brush selected, click Show Brush Properties to open Brush Properties.
4. Click Capture.
5. From Custom Texture, select either Shape + Colors or Shapeand or checkRotate to Stroke.
6. Within the canvas, click the area to be captured as thetexture. The display in Brush Properties updates to show the texture and color.

   NoteWhen capturing the texture shape, SketchBook uses the current size of the Do-It-Yourself brush. If the complete shape is not captured, resize the Do-It-Yourself brush, then capture the shape again. See Resize a brush.

Saving a texture brush

Once you have created a texture brush, click Save at the bottom of Brush Properties to save the brush.

NoteAll custom brush can be saved.

Modify a texture brush

There are many ways to modify a texture brush, from resetting it, opening its properties and changing settings, changing a stroke, or assigning a permanent color to it. See the sections that follow for more information.

Resetting a brush

To restore the previous setting of a Do-It-Yourself brush. All texture brush data is deleted and the original properties settings are restored.

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1. Select the texture brush in the Brush Palette.
2. Click Show Brush Properties to open Brush Properties.
3. Click Reset. The original settings of the Do-It-Yourself brush return and the texture is removed.

Changing texture brush properties

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To change attributes of a texture brush.

1. Select the texture brush in the Brush Palette.
2. Click Show Brush Properties to open Brush Properties.
3. Edit the brush properties.
4. Click Save to save the changes.

Changing a texture

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To change the stroke used by a texture brush.

1. Create a new stroke or import an image to use as a texture.
2. Select any pre-existing texture brush in the Brush Palette.
3. Click Show Brush Properties to open Brush Properties.
4. Click Capture.
5. Set Custom Texture options.
6. Within the canvas, click the area to be captured as thetexture. The display in Brush Properties updates to show the texture and color.
7. Click Save to save the changes.

Setting color on a Shape texture brush

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To set a different color for a texture brush.

1. Create a Shape texture brush. See Creating a texture brush.
2. In the Color Palette, select a color. The texture brush color updates.