Simply click and hold on the Brush Tool to access the Morphing Brush. It can enhance your creativity because, unlike a standard brush, it allows for the combination of several brush/motif marks, resulting in a varying and natural stroke. Along with transparency and noise adjustments, you also have the added benefit of customising such settings such as spacing, rendering and time or render behaviour.

Morphing Brush settings

Upon selecting the tool, the following settings pane will open.

Combinations of brush marks can now be added to the settings pane to create unique and diverse brush strokes.  To do this;

1. Open your Brushes Library by either double-clicking on the Brush Tool in your Tools Palette or via Window Menu > Brushes. Alternatively you can use the keyboard shortcut ⌘⇧B.
2. Drag the desired brush from the library and drop it into the settings window.

Understanding the Morphing Brush settings

Shape tracking

Choose from a selection of different shapes to add further character to the stroke of your Morphing Brush. To read in more detail about the individual tracking options, please click here.

Rendering length and time

A specific rendering length can be set in mm using the slider bar. To make fine adjustments with the slider, hold down your Option Key, as you drag along the slider. A specific rendering time can be applied using seconds.

Spacing

The spacing controls the distance between the brush marks as the line is drawn, and can be increased or decreased accordingly. The lower the number, the closer the marks are situated, resulting in a smoothly painted line.

At end of render

Determine how your brush will continue after finishing the cycle of set brush marks by choosing from a variety of options. Each will have a different creative effect.

• Stop - with this option selected, the brushing stops at the end of the sequence and in correspondence to the set Rendering Time or Length
• Cycle - the sequence will be repeated for the duration of brushing
• Alternating Cycle - the sequence will repeat with alternating directions for the duration of painting. In other words, it will go front to back, then back to front
• Continue with Last Brush - the sequence will be rendered and the stroke continued with the last brush mark for the duration of brushing

Duplicating and deleting brush marks

Duplicating

1. Click on the brush shape you wish to duplicate. A blue frame will appear around the object, indicating it is now selected. To select multiple shapes, hold down ⇧ (shift key).
2. Use the duplicate button (the icon showing multiple pages) located to the right of the white box to make a copy of the highlighted item.

Deleting

1. Click on the brush shape you wish to delete. A blue frame will appear around the object, indicating it is now selected. To select multiple shapes, hold down ⇧ (shift key).
2. Use the minus button located to the right of the white box to remove the highlighted items.
3. To delete all brush marks from the settings, click on the bin icon to the right.

Restoring the settings of the Morphing Brushing using a Palette

You can easily save your favourite Morphing Brushes for future use and easy access using the Palette technology. Alternatively, you can integrate them into one of your current action buttons, enhancing existing Palette items can integrate them into one of your current Palette Buttons, enhancing existing Palette items and streamlining your daily tasks.

To do this, simply follow the steps below:

1. Go to File Menu > New > Palette or open an existing Palette you wish to add to.
2. Drag the Settings Handler located in the top right corner of your Morphing Brush settings pane into your Palette. This will save the current settings as a button to recall with a single click.
3. Double click on the newly created button in your Palette to rename, edit or create a preview.
4. To set the Morphing Brush, simply click on the Palette Button and start painting. This saves the repeating steps of creating the sequence from scratch.
5. Save the Palette by going to the File Menu and selecting  Save or Save as.