Activate the brush tool

Activate the brush tool Click with the left mouse button on the Brush icon (yellow hand), in the PSP side menu.  and in the upper bar the instrument settings menu (green hand) will appear.  Clicking on the small triangle indicated by the red hand,  will open the drop-down menu with all the brushes available.  If the brush you need to use is not in the list, you need to tell the program where to find it.  Click on the folder icon:  and the Path window will open.  Click Add and the window to search for the folder where the brush is located will open. Open the drop-down menu by clicking on the triangle next to the window and select the folder where you put the brush.  Click OK.  Again ok.  And the brush will be immediately available.  Attention, when you insert a new brush in the folder that is already inserted in the Paths, while you have PSP open,  by activating the Brush tool you will not find it in the brush list.  To avoid closing and reopening the program, click on the folder icon to open the paths  Click on OK  and the brush "magically" will appear.  IF PSP DOES NOT "SEE" THE BRUSH You have two possibilities:  1. IMPORT File> Import> Custom Brush: Click on Open (1), look for the brush in the folder where you extracted it,  you will see it in the left column, click on the brush to select it (2) and then Add (3):  Having just inserted it in the File preferences, you will see the message that the file already exists and invites you to choose another name.  But the program does not allow in this phase to change the name.  Click on Cancel. Go to the folder where you extracted the brush, change the file name, and repeat the import.  2. EXPORT Open the brush in PSP  File> Export> Custom Brush. Give a different name to the brush (because if you leave the original name the answer already exists and you can not proceed)  and click ok. and the file will be immediately available in the brush list.  There is only one circumstance in which in no way you can have won the brush:  when the brush is composed of two files, as the example below:  and the two files you put in the folder (or was provided by the author of the tutorial) only the file with the PSPscript extension.  The file with the pspscript extension is the script that allows the program to run the brush, but without the brush file you can not do anything.  For this reason, the two files, when provided with the tutorial, do not need to be separated.  If you happen to not immediately notice that you only have the script and not the brush, none of the above described routes will have a positive outcome. In the normal procedure of indicating the path in the File Preferences, you will see the brush, but it will only be an unusable black circle.  If you try to import it you will receive this error message:  If you want to open the file to try the export, it will not be possible because  On the contrary, the lack of the script gives you some possibilities.  After having indicated the path in the File preferences you will not find it, because the script is missing,  but you have the possibility to use the import or export.  The brush is applied by clicking on the image with the mouse.  By clicking with the left mouse button, the brush is applied with the color set as foreground color. how to set the foreground color see hereClicking with the right button is applied with the color set as background color.  how to set the background color see hereIf you select a gradient or pattern (pattern or texture), the flower will have that color.  You can also apply the brush several times and at the same time you can change color, gradient or pattern.  All the flowers will be different.  You can also change the size.  After the release of the latest versions of PSP, it happens to find brushes over 500 pixels.  Until the Corel X version these brushes are not supported. If in the tutorial you are provided with the complete brush, that is composed of the regular two files, you can safely copy them in the folder that you will then insert in the Files Paths,  and the PSP will see them. With the particular that will have the dimension to 32 pixels;  therefore you will have to adjust the size to the maximum width of 500 and then enlarge the brush, according to the needs of the tutorial.  If the brush is not complete, the size will prevent you from using the import or export.  In these cases you can, you can resize the brush to the maximum size supported by PSP, and then export it as a custom brush.  You can also create a custom brush from an image.  How to create a brush from an image see thistutorial I hope these brief hints have been helpful. If something is missing, or it is not clear to you, please write to me.  You will help me to improve them.  August 19, 2006 http://www.maidiregrafica.eu/cosafarepennelli.html