Design motifs, textures and small sketches can be made into brushes by copying them from a design.
Surfaces
- Create a new design or scan a piece of artwork.
- Select a small motif or patterned area using one of the selection tools (try not to make the area too large as lots of large brushes in your Palette will affect the speed of the software).
- Hold down ^ (control key) and click
- In the menu that pops up click Add to Brushes
OR
- Select a small motif or patterned area using one of the selection tools (try not to make the area too large as lots of large brushes in your Palette will affect the speed of the software)
- Go to Edit Menu > Copy. The information (including any tonal content) will be copied from the design.
- Go to Paste from the Brushes Library action menu. The new brush shape will appear in the Brushes Library.
- Select the new brush and try painting with it in your design. The picture below shows a motif brush with a spacing of 80%.
Note: Brushes created in this way create bitmap brushes which cannot be adjusted in terms of angle, hardness and roundness. When you view the individual settings of this type of brush, they are greyed out, however it is possible to change their diameter, transparency, noise and spacing.
Tip: Create a truly unique set of brushes by combining filters and patterns with your standard brushes and saving them to a Palette. The properties of these brushes can be edited from within the Palette, meaning affects can be created and edited with ease.
Using existing textures to make brushes and build your design
- Open a separated texture file
- Look through each layer and look for interesting areas to turn into brushes. For more information on how to do this click here.
We recommend making a few different ones to balance the texture and make it look less CAD created. 
To make these brushes look even better, we advise to increase the spacing to over 100% and also tick Rotate while Painting to give a more randomised effect. You can also make use of the Pressure Size and Pressure Density options if you are using a Wacom tablet. - Snap to the mask in the tile layout file and start to paint with the new brushes, building up texture.
Tip: To break into the texture and create a more distressed pattern, try swapping the black and white chip and painting in white.
Textiles
- Create a new design or scan a piece of artwork.
- Select a small motif or patterned area using one of the selection tools (try not to make the area too large as lots of large brushes in your Palette will affect the speed of the software).
- Hold down ^ (control key) and click
- In the menu that pops up click Add to Brushes
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OR
- Select a small motif or patterned area using one of the selection tools (try not to make the area too large as lots of large brushes in your Palette will affect the speed of the software)
- Go to Edit Menu > Copy. The information (including any tonal content) will be copied from the design.
- Go to Paste from the Brushes Library action menu. The new brush shape will appear in the Brushes Library.
- Select the new brush and try painting with it in your design. The picture below shows a motif brush with a spacing of 80%.
Note: Brushes created in this way create bitmap brushes which cannot be adjusted in terms of angle, hardness and roundness. When you view the individual settings of this type of brush, they are greyed out, however it is possible to change their diameter, transparency, noise and spacing.
Tip: Create a truly unique set of brushes by combining filters and patterns with your standard brushes and saving them to a Palette. The properties of these brushes can be edited from within the Palette, meaning affects can be created and edited with ease.
Wallcoverings
- Create a new design or scan a piece of artwork.
- Select a small motif or patterned area using one of the selection tools (try not to make the area too large as lots of large brushes in your Palette will affect the speed of the software).
- Hold down ^ (control key) and click
- In the menu that pops up click Add to Brushes
OR
- Select a small motif or patterned area using one of the selection tools (try not to make the area too large as lots of large brushes in your Palette will affect the speed of the software)
- Go to Edit Menu > Copy. The information (including any tonal content) will be copied from the design.
- Go to Paste from the Brushes Library action menu. The new brush shape will appear in the Brushes Library.
- Select the new brush and try painting with it in your design. The picture below shows a motif brush with a spacing of 80%.
Note: Brushes created in this way create bitmap brushes which cannot be adjusted in terms of angle, hardness and roundness. When you view the individual settings of this type of brush, they are greyed out, however it is possible to change their diameter, transparency, noise and spacing.
Tip: Create a truly unique set of brushes by combining filters and patterns with your standard brushes and saving them to a Palette. The properties of these brushes can be edited from within the Palette, meaning affects can be created and edited with ease.