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Custom brushes & the Brush Library

A custom brush is a small pixel stamp you paint with instead of a plain square or circle — a leaf, a bolt, a texture chunk, a piece of dithering.

Make a brush from your art#

  1. Draw the shape you want as a brush on any layer.
  2. Select it with a selection tool.
  3. Edit ▸ Capture brush (or Brush From Selection). The selected pixels become the active brush tip.

Now paint — the pencil stamps that shape. Adjust it in the Tool rail ▸ Tip section: flip, rotate, make it directional, tile it. Clear Brush returns to the default round/square tip.

Recolour vs. stamp#

  • **Stamp*— the brush paints its own captured colours.
  • **Recolor*— the brush shape is painted in the current foreground colour (the tip becomes a mask). Toggle this in the Tip section when a custom stamp is active.

The Brush Library#

Sprite ▸ Brush Library (or the Brush Library button in the Tip section) opens the manager.

The Brush Library sheet
The Brush Library sheet

Here you can:

  • **Save*the current brush (shape + settings) as a reusable named brush.
  • Organise brushes into folders; rename, duplicate, favourite or delete them.
  • **Import images*from Photos (up to 16 at once) as stamp brushes — each becomes a monochrome or full-colour tip.
  • **Search*by name.

Saved brushes travel with the app, not the document, so they're available in every sprite.

Pattern brushes#

To paint a repeating pattern:

  1. Capture a small tile as a brush.
  2. In the Tip section turn on Brush tiling and Align: global.
  3. Paint — the tile repeats seamlessly, locked to the canvas grid.

Edit ▸ Pattern From Selection captures the current selection as the dither/fill pattern used by the bucket and gradient tools.