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| This option allows the user to paint
with two brush tips simultaneously. The controls here are quite
powerful and can be used as a Texturing platform as well as a Shaping
one. |
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| Setting up a Dual brush
is easy. (Follow along as I show you a simple example.) |
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| 1.) Create a New Document.
Go to File > New. Make it 600
X 600 pixels at 72 dpi in RGB mode on a White Background. Now press
D on the keyboard to set the Foreground Color to
Black. |
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2.) Select the Brush
tool  .
Click the arrow located in the Top Brushes tab.
A pop-up menu will appear, Select the Reset
Brushes. A dialog box will appear, just click OK and the
correct library will load. (This is the default set and we will
use it to create the first brush.) |
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| 3.) Select the Brush
Tip Shape pane to Open it's controls, then Select the brush
named Scattered Maple Leaves.
(You will have to scroll down to find it.) Now, go to Spacing and
set to 50%. (This will be the primary brush.) |
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| 4.) Next, Select the
Dual Brush pane to Open it's set of controls. Let's
change the Brush Library again. Click the arrow located in the Top
Brushes tab. A pop-up menu will appear, Select
the Special Effect Brushes. A dialog
box will appear, just click OK and the correct library will load. |
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| Select the brush named Ducks
Not in a Row, then adjust Mode to Multiply, Diameter to 75
px, Spacing to 80% and Count to 2 as shown. (This will be the Secondary
brush.) |
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Now, that both brushes have been created,
you can switch easily between the two (Primary or Primary+Secondary)
simply by clicking the box located in the Dual Brush
tab  . |
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Try it out by going to the work area now and
painting the two Strokes as shown below.
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| In this way, (with Dual Brush
Selected) the wreath was easily generated simply by Selecting a
New Foreground Color, then painting a circle and releasing the brush,
then painting another circle slightly inside center of the first. |
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The Controls
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| Diameter - Sets the
size of the Secondary brush. |
Spacing - Spreads the instances
of the brush.
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| Adjusting Diameter
to 30%, then adjusting Spacing (for the Second
Stroke) to 130% produced these two results. |
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| Simply making adjustments to Size can
control Shape in this fashion. |
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| Scatter - Spreads
the instances of the brush perpendicular to the Stroke. |
| Count - Adds density.
Each progressive setting has the effect as stacking slides. |
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Copyright © 2006-2007 Glenn Schemenauer - Spacific
Designs™ - All rights reserved. |
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