Create a Fractal Brush

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This tutorial is intended for beginners to learn how to create a brush tip from a fractal image.  If you have any questions, please feel free to Email  me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Paint Shop Pro.  I wrote this with  Paint Shop Pro X2, but the steps may also be done in any version.  You may download a free trial at Corel.

Remember to save as a psp file often!

Download and install a Fractal program.  I used Apophysis.  It is free.

1.  Create a Fractal image  using your fractal program.  Save it as a JPEG or PNG.  Make the fractal on a black background.

2.  Open the image in Paint shop Pro.

3.  Choose the selection marquee tool, set it to square.  Draw a square selection around the part of the image that you want to use.

4.  Image > Crop to Selection

5.  If you are using a version of PSP earlier than X2, then you need to resize the image so that it is no bigger than 500 px.

6.  Image > Greyscale

7.  Image > Increase Color Depth, RGB - 8 bits/channel

8.  Image > Negative Image  (this reverses the black and white)

9.  File > Export Custom Brush

And now your fractal brush is ready to use!

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