Creating Custom Brushes In PhotoImpact

Posted by Karen - November 3rd, 2006

I ran across a great tutorial the other day for creating custom paint brushes for PhotoImpact. I’ve been using PhotoImpact for some time now but until recently, I haven’t had much time to practice using the brush tools.

I love to experiment and so what I did was create a new blank 300px x 300px canvas. Then I used Medieval Dingbats font to create a black and white .gif image to use as my brush texture. Following Dawn’s simple instructions, I played around with colors until I achieved the look I wanted. Here’s the result of one of my experiments:
An Experimental Image Using A Custom Brush in PhotoImpact

I’ve since created about a dozen or so more and it’s addicting, although I think it’s better than sitting on the couch watching TV, don’t you agree?

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2 Responses to “Creating Custom Brushes In PhotoImpact”

  1. Roshan Says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 7:38 am

    Hi Karen

    So kind of you to stop by my site, thank you! you too have a beautiful website :) now i need to try the PhotoImpact.. looks like it has some great features.

  2. Karen Says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 8:42 am

    Hi Roshan,

    Thanks for your comment. You are going to love PhotoImpact. For less than $100 it is the best deal for a graphics editor. A lot of Photoshop plugins work with it too so you can also open and edit .psd files with it. When you try it out, please let me know what you think of it.