Corel® Painter™ lets you create your own brush libraries. For example, you may want a library for your favorite brush variants so that you have them all in one category. You can also use brush libraries to store custom brush variants that you create or that other artists share with you.

In Corel Painter IX, brush variants are individual XML files organized in brush category folders within brush libraries. Brush libraries that are saved to the Corel Painter IX\Brushes folder can later be loaded into Corel Painter and accessed through the Brush Selector bar.

• In the Corel Painter IX\Brushes folder, create and name a new folder for the library.
• In the new folder, create and name a new folder for each brush category that you want to include in the new library.
• Locate and copy the XML files for the brush variants that you want to include.
• Paste the XML files into the brush category folders you created in step 2. If you want an icon to appear on the Brush Selector bar, you must create a JPEG and save it with the same name as the brush variant. Save it at the same level as the brush category folder.

• In Corel Painter, click the selector menu arrow on the Brush Selector bar, and choose Load Library.
• In the Brush Libraries dialog box, select the brush library that you want to load, and click Load. The new set of brushes are now visible in the selector.