Create an icon for the Fingerpaint brush category

Painter 7™ provides a JPEG icon for each category in the default Painter Brushes library. If you wish to have icons in the brushes palette for your own library's categories, this lesson covers some ways to create the icons.

You can do any of the following

• Create an icon by copying and modifying an existing one.

Continue with the tutorial steps below.

• Use a pre-created icon graphic.

Click here to download a completed sample image of Fingerpaint.jpg.

If you used this sample icon, click here to proceed to the next lesson of the tutorial.

• Create an icon from scratch.

The finished icon must be 30 x 30 pixels in size, 72 dpi, and saved to the JPEG format in the My Brushes library folder with the same name as the category folder it will represent.

If you created your own icon, click here to proceed to the next lesson of the tutorial.

 

Copy the icon to the new folder

1. In the Apple Finder™ or Microsoft® Explorer, go to Painter 7 Brushes Painter Brushes, duplicate the Airbrushes.jpg icon file, and drag the copy into My Brushes.
2. In My Brushes, rename the icon file Fingerpaint.jpg.

Modify the icon in Painter 7

1. In Painter 7, open Fingerpaint.jpg.
2. To fit in the Brushes palette and drawer, the file size is 30 x 30 pixels. The image window may open very small. With the mouse, drag the image window open wider to view the tools on the image frame.
3. Use the scale slider on the image window's bottom border, and zoom in until there is enough room to work on the image.
4. From the popup menus at the bottom of the Brushes palette, select a brush category and variant .
5. From the Art Materials palette's Color section, click and drag on the pickers in the Hue ring and the Saturation/Value triangle to select a color.
6. From the Brush Controls palette's Size section, use the Size slider to reduce the brush size to work on the zoomed image.
7. Edit the image.
8. Save and close the file.

Now all the necessary files, folders, and icons are in place to load the My Brushes library to the Brushes palette.

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