Pixlr - The Pencil, Brush and Paint Bucket tools

Pixlr - The Pencil, Brush and Paint Bucket tools
Pencil Options
6 different pencil types. You can also change the opacity of the pencil, the Amount (how thick is
the colour) and the Size.
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Brush Options
Select from a soft or hard brush. You can change the size and opacity.
When you have a brush selected, you can also change its diameter, spacing and hardness.
There are also more brushes you can add to your palette. Click the More button.
Brush tool - MORE brushes
Click the drop-dwon arrow for more categoties of brushes: Artistic, Nature, Makeup, shapes, Misc
The example shown is the Artistic category. If you want some splatter brushes, click to load that
set of brushes.
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Splatter brushes
Click Add to load these brushes into your brush palette where they can be used in your images.
Any brush you don't want can be cleared by clicking: Remove brush.
NOTE: Each time you open Pixlr, the default set of brushes will be available. Any changes you
make to your brushes: clear some, load more brushes - will be deleted, unless you save the set.
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A splatter brush
1. Select the brush and 2. change its diameter, spacing and hardness. Select the colour of the
brush first.
3. You can save your set of brushes. Click Save set to save your current brush palette. For
example; if you have added the splatter brushes and changed some of the settings, you can save
them and reload that set of brushes next time you open Pixlr.
4. Next time ypou open Pixlr, and you want to load your saved brushes, click Clear first. Otherwise,
when you load your saved brushes, they will load at the bottom of the current set of brushes.
5. Click Load set to load a saved set of brushes.
6. You can also create your own brush.
7. Reset. Resets your brush palette to its default.
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Define your own brush
There are many examples of brushes that you can use in Photoshop and Gimp. You can
download free sets of brushes for these tools. However, that doesn't work for use in Pixlr. We need
a workaround.
Do a Google Images search for Photoshop brushes. When you find a brush you like, you can
define that image as a brush and use it in Pixlr in the normal Brush tool. Here's how:
This is an image from Google images of some Photoshop brushes. I want the number: 9
I have selected it with the Lasso tool.
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Define the brush
Click Edit, Define Brush.
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Select the Brush tool
Select the Brush tool, the colour you want and your newly defined brush is ready to paint with.
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Saving your defined brushes
You don't want to have to repeat all these steps every time you open Pixlr. If you have several
defined brushes, save them as a set. For exampl, I have defined brushes for the numbers 1-9.
They are sitting in my brush palette.
Before I save them as a set, I need to remove all the default brushes using the Remove Brush
button. Click the Remove button and remove all the default brushes - one by one - until all that
remains are your defined brushes.
Here is a link to some custom Vector Stalks brushes made for Pixlr from Mel's Brushes.
Download trhem and load them into Pixlr.
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The defined brushes
This is my defined numbers brushes. Click Save Set, name the brushes, and select a location on
your hard rrive to save them. The filename has .pbr as its file extension.
To load the defined brushes next time you open Pixlr, click Load Set
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Playing with brushes
This image is of a dog standing in a field. I added brushes - from the Nature category in MORE and
then added a vignette filter.
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Paint Bucket tool
The paint bucket will fill the canvas with the desired colour or fill a shape or a selection.
For example, this shape was drawn with the Marquee tool and filled in red with the paint bucket.
You have some options with the paint bucket. Opacity, Contiguous, Anti-alias.
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