Making A Brush In PSP

Another easy tutorial from me, but, if you don’t know how to do it, it might not seem so easy for you. 

You’ve made this really neat doodle, you can always save it and open it up every time you use it, or you can save it as a brush, and just push a button and it’s right there.  So, let’s run through saving a brush in PSP.

First, download the doodle that I made for this tutorial.  It’s in PNG format for 2 purposes.  1 – so you can follow along as a PSP user, 2 – so if you use PS you can easily use it or make a brush out of it in your program. 

Here’s the doodle -

Now, let’s get started – unzip and open the doodle in PSP.

In PSP, brushes can be no bigger than 999 pixels.  This PNG is bigger (on purpose LOL).  Go to Image and Resize:

(I have made the pictures clickable so you can see them full size and don’t miss any of the settings)

Then, on this one resize it to 999 for height because that’s where it is the biggest.

Again, resize the height to 999.  Make sure your lock aspect ration is ticked off, that way it’ll resize everything to the right proportions.  If it was wider than taller, you would make the width 999.

Now, click on File/Export/Custom Brush

You will see this pop up:

Fill in the information – for this doodle you would use my information, because it’s my doodle.

Name:  HM-Doodle_Swirl

Author:  Heather Manning

Copyright:  ©2007 Heather Manning

Description:  A swirly Doodle

If this was your doodle, you would fill in your information.

Press OK

And there you have it, your doodle is now saved as a brush and you’ll have it any time you use your brushes.

I hope that helped out those of you who don’t know how to export a brush and  I hope those of you who do know how to do that, at least like the doodle!  )