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Applications such as Combustion, Photoshop, Painter and on and on are giving the end user more ability to customize parts of their tools. In the case of Combustion, we're going to customize a brush so you can do all kinds of cool things. I'm going to create a brand new Paint Operator and I'm going to leave everything at the defaults because we're going to be focused on just the brush and not animation in this particular lesson. I'll click OK and as you see here, we have our Brush Button and we have a little indicator as to what our brush looks like and all kinds of things we can change. As usual, I'm going to break off my monitors just so I can tuck those guys away and have more room to focus on the brush. I don't really need the Workspace for this, but I do need this tool right here. This is the brush. OK. So when you create a brush, you're able to work with the brushes that Combustion comes with or you can make your own brush from scratch. To do so, we can either go to this little Arrow right here and choose New Brush, which gives you a new brush right here, or you can click in a blank area of this Brush Category. So I can click and I have a new brush to play with. So what can we do with this brush? Well, the first thing we can do is use a little bit of a trick here to see the brush as a stroke by choosing the Stroke Freehand Tool and then you can move your brush out here into the Viewport to see pretty much what you have down here. So I can change the shape of that brush to Rectangular and you notice that the Icon turns into a rectangle in the Viewport. I can go with Elliptical and Custom, which we're building right now. So I'm going to go back to Rectangular. I'm going to change the size of this brush a little bit and once again I'll put my mouse out here and we see that change. We can also work on this Aspect by using the slider or enter our own value by clicking in there and the Aspect will pretty much squish it down a little bit. The Angle is going to tilt the brush like this. The Spacing is going to determine how many of these we get with each stroke. So I'll choose a, let me see, a pretty bright color. I'll go with a color here and I'm going to click and drag out a stroke. Spacing tells the brush how many of these it's going to put in each stroke. Currently we have a spacing of 12 percent. So I'm going to undo that and I'm going to increase this by clicking in the space here and enter 100 and I'll click it and drag again. Now we have like bricks. I'll undo that again. Over here we're able to pretty much determine the softness of the brush. So I can click and drag this line down and you see now that we have a nice blur on the outside of this brush and a harsh diamond in the middle. I'll go ahead and click and give you an example of that and I'll also zoom in a little bit. I'm going to undo that now and show you that we can click this button to swap that. So we can have a hard exterior and a soft interior of our brush. But this region here gets even more interesting because I can add points to it. So check this out. I'll click and add a point, move it up, click and add another point, click and add another point and now I have a really cool pattern in this brush. I'll click and show you that. It's really handy when you want to create some really cool artwork to just change the way the brush looks by using this graph here. So I can change the color and I can have all kinds of really interesting artwork going on here. And once again, I come over here, change the shape and I'm back to my rectangle and that's really all there is to it when it comes to creating a brush. It's pretty easy to do. But there is another setting we should talk about, which is Anti-Alias in here. So I'm going to go to the Selection Menu and select the entire image and then hit Delete on my keyboard. Now what I want to do is I'm going to show you the difference between having Anti-Alias on and off. With it on, whenever I paint, let me grab the Brush Tool again, I get a nice, soft, fuzzy edge on my stroke. I'll undo that and I'll turn Anti-Aliasing off and when I paint again with the brush, the edges are a lot harsher. It's a little easier, of course, to see with a different shape, so I'll grab an elliptical shape and I'll drop my spacing down and also the size of the brush and I'll paint another stroke here. So you can see a lot more jaggy as far as the drawing of that tool. So that's how you create a brush. Once again you can come over here, create a new brush, you can delete the brush that you have selected, you can continue to edit your brush and you can click here to create a new brush as well.