124 CHAPTER 4 DRAWING Clicking on a
124 CHAPTER 4 DRAWING Clicking on a new brush in either the menu or the dialog changes the active brush imme diately. You can try one, draw with it, undo it if you don t like it, and try another brush, all without dismissing the dialog. Tip You can also get to the Brushes dialog using File . Dialogs . Brushes from the Toolbox, Dialogs . Brushes from an image window, or from various docking menus, since it s a dockable dialog. Brushes are like very small images. When you use a paint tool such as the Pencil, it s as though you dipped the brush image in ink and then dragged it across the screen. In addition to the normal hard-edged circles, some brushes have fuzzy edges. The Pencil tool will ignore the fuzzy edge; I ll talk about how to use those brushes in a moment. Some brushes, such as the diagonal slashes, are asymmetric. They yield different patterns depending on the direction in which you drag. (You can use this effect for calligraphy, as if you were using a classic quill pen.) A few brushes are actually animated images. Why would you ever want an animated brush? Since it changes as you drag it across the screen, you get a line that s varied or random. A fun example is the Vine brush (Figure 4-6). Figure 4-6. The Vine brush
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