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TwistedBrush is all about fun. You don't have to be a brush guru to play with effects.
1. Click the "Brush Effects Panel" icon.
2. Pick a favorite brush.
3. Change something in the panel.
4. Try painting a few strokes.
Did you get a surprising result? Save it if you like it. Otherwise, change something else. Don't worry, you aren't changing the original brush. At the end of this topic, you'll find details on how to to save what you created.
Just changing the Category and the Properties at the top of the panel can be very entertaining. Also, don't overlook the "Effects Menu." It's an easy way to instantly swap effects layers.
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CORE BRUSH CATEGORIES & CORE BRUSH VARIATIONS
(Found in Drop Downs at top of "Effects Panel") current (6-17-6)
1. ACRYLICS
SML bristle on dry
SML bristle on wet
2. AIRBRUSHES
Close
Medium
Far
Textured CMF
Fine Splatter
Splatter
Chunks
Big Chunks
3. ARTIST
Impressionist
Impressionist2
Seurat (artist who developed "Pointillism")
Seurat2
Sketched SM
Sketched
Sketched oil SML
4. BASIC
Smooth no feather
Smooth 20 40 60 80 100% feather
Solid no feather
Solid 20 40 60 80 100% feather
Solid texture
Wet
Wet texture
5. BLENDERS
SML bristle on wet
SML bristle on semi-wet
SML bristle on near-dry
FSC pastel blend
Basic blend
Basic blend soft
Web paint with finger
Smudge
6. CHALKS
Fine
Regular
Coarse
7. CHARCOAL
SMH vine
SMH compressed
8. CONTE
SMH conte crayon
9. COVER
Plain coverage
Feathered coverage
Coverage 20 40 60 80 100% feather
Coverage 10 20 40 60 80 100% feather inverted
Coverage SML bristle
10. CRAYONS
Basic crayon
Watercolor crayon
Cold wax crayon on hot
Hot wax crayon on hot
11. FELT MARKER
Basic marker
Dry marker
12. OIL PASTELS
Fine
Regular
Coarse
Extra Coarse
FRCX wet
13. OILS
SML messy bristle on dry
SML bristle on dry
SML messy bristle on wet
SML bristle dabbed on wet
SML bristle wet on wet
SML bristle dry on wet
14. PASTEL
Extra fine
Fine
Regular
Coarse
Extra Coarse
Super Coarse
Blended Light
Blended Heavy
15. PENCILS
Graphite pencil
Graphite pencil 2
Oil pencil
Waxy pencil
Hot Wax pencil
16. PENS
Basic pen
Gel pen
17. SCRIPTS
eclpse01
planet 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
18. SCRIPTS (USER)
planet 07
19. STAMPERS
SML bristle stamper
Sketcher SML stamper
Copy
Full Copy
Hard edge
FRC color
20. STRANGE
Yarn
Glow Worm
Hair
21. WATERCOLOR
Wet on dry
Wet on wet
Just water
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HOW TO CREATE AN ARTSET TO STORE NEW & MODIFIED BRUSHES
TO CREATE A NEW ARTSET...
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1. File/New Artset...New artset named "New Brushes" or whatever.
TO MODIFY EXISTING BRUSHES...Method 1
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1. Click "Open Effects Panel" icon.
2. Click on a brush to modify.
3. Modify settings in "Effects Panel."
4.. Press "M" on keyboard.
5. Click on "New Brushes" in the Artset tree at left.
6. Click on an empty brush cell.
7. Edit the Brush Name in the Brush Options dialog.
8. Edit any check boxes, then click OK.
9. Cllick "Exit" button.
TO MODIFY EXISTING BRUSHES...Method 2
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This is the long way. Illustrates the use of the Export feature.
1. Click "Open Effects Panel" icon.
2. Click on a brush to modify.
3. Modify settings in "Effects Panel."
4. Click "File/Export Brush."
5. Select and Copy the code, then click "Done."
6. Click "File/Import Brush."
7. Paste the Code, then click "Import."
8. Press "M" on keyboard.
9. Click on "New Brushes" in the Artset tree at left.
10. Click on an empty brush cell.
11. Edit the brush name in the Brush Options dialog.
12. Edit any check boxes, then click OK.
13. Cllick "Exit" button.
Modified brush is ready to use!!
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The following links present additional Brush Design information that's available on the Pixarra Forum to date, 7-2-06.
Topic 1094 is a basic design tutorial. To make good use of this tutorial, you will need to study this Prelim Topic. Topic 676 provides long lists of Brush Effects and Envelopes and some definitions of both. You can skip Topic 1079 for now. It is just a suggested change, but may be helpful later in understanding the Effects.
http://pixarra.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=676
http://pixarra.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1079
http://pixarra.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1094
Click the Brush Effects Panel icon to open the Panel. All design and modification is done within this Panel. Brush design starts with a CORE BRUSH and a VARIATION of that brush. These choices are made from the two drop-downs at the top of the Panel. These two choices establish the basic characteristics of your brush. Try clicking Reset Effects in the Effects Menu. Select a dark Active Color with Density and Opacity sliders all the way to the right. Now take a couple strokes. What you see is the Core Brush and the particular Variation. At this point, there are no effects modifying the Core Brush.
Now you can begin to modify the Core Brush by applying Effects in column one of the Effects Panel. Up to twelve layers of Effects can be applied, each one further modifying the cumulative Effects of the Layers above it. The first Effect modifies the Core Brush in some way. Try a couple strokes to see the changed brush stroke. The next Effect modifies this first modification, and so on. There are lots of Effects to be applied in a mind-boggling number of combinations.To make it even more interesting, how each Effect is applied is modified by the Envelope selected in Column two.
(Special thanks to CliffL for gathering much of the Brush Effects information!!!)
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