The Brush Creator makes it fun and easy to create brush variants in Corel® Painter™.

There are three elements of the Brush Creator: the Randomizer, the Transposer, and the Stroke Designer. The Randomizer creates random brush settings for the selected brush category and variant. The Transposer creates new brush settings based on the transition from one brush category and variant to another. The Stroke Designer lets you control the size and shape of the media applied by a brush, the way the dabs are repeated in a stroke, the media (usually color) that flows from a brush, and how a brush interacts with underlying pixels.

• Press Command + B (Mac OS) or Ctrl + B (Windows).
  You can also open the Brush Creator by choosing Window menu > Show Brush Creator.

1. In the Brush Creator, click the Randomizer tab.
2. Do one of the following:
   • On the Brush Selector bar, choose a brush category and variant.
   • Choose a brush stroke from the preview grid.
   Random settings are created according to the default settings.
3. To fine-tune the settings of the randomized variants displayed in the preview grid, adjust the Amount of Randomization slider. Move the slider to the right to increase randomization; move it to the left to decrease randomization.
4. To create a new set of randomized settings, click the Randomize Current Selection button.

1. In the Brush Creator, click the Transposer tab.
2. Do one of the following:
   • On the Brush Selector bars at both the top and the bottom of the Transposer page, choose a brush category and brush variant.
   • Choose a brush stroke from the preview grid.
   This brush variant becomes the next variant to be transposed.
3. Click the Transpose Current Selection button.

1. In the Brush Creator, click the Stroke Designer tab.
2. Choose a brush variant, and use the controls to tweak its settings. The Stroke Designer page contains the same controls available in the Brush Control palettes.

1. Do one of the following:
   • On the Tracker palette, choose the variant you want to save, click the Tracker palette menu arrow, and choose Save Variant.
   • From outside of the Brush Creator, click the selector menu arrow on the Brush Selector bar, and choose Save Variant.
   • From within the Brush Creator, choose Variant menu > Save Variant.
2. In the Save Variant dialog box, type a name for the new variant. The name can have up to 23 characters.
3. Enable the Save Current Colors check box if you want the current main and additional colors saved with the variant. If a variant uses the Clone Color option, you do not need to enable Save Current Colors. Your new variant appears on the variant menu in the current brush category. A new XML file is created in the Brushes category folder.