This tutorial is reprinted with permission of it's author,
Joe Cilinceon. Thanks Joe!
Custom brush tips greatly
increase the flexibility of Paint Shop Pro. Many of the
free brushes available for Photoshop 4 will work with
Paint Shop Pro 5. It is also very easy to create your own
from any object/texture you can select.
I will demonstrate creating a custom brush tip
using the leaf picture in Fig. 1. First thing you
do is open the leaf image and select the magic
wand tool from the tool bar. Now set the wand
tool's controls to color = RGB, tolerance = 15,
feather = 0. Once this is set click the wand on
any spot on the white background.
Fig. 1
Now do a Selections | Invert and
you should now have what I have in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2
We will now create the custom tip from this leaf
selection. First select your brush tool from the
tool bar and make sure the control palette is
visible. On the control palette click on the
brush tip tab and click on the brush options
button and select custom. Now just select create
and OK your bush tip is done. The finished
product will create effects as shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 3
Just be aware that brushes can become as
addictive as plugin filters.
This page reposted by permission, Joe Cilinceon
April 2002