Chinese symbols as brush objects

[Jan Raimann]

hi john,

did i get you right, you want to define your own brush?

– select the desired part of your image with the marque tool (you can also crop it)
– copy “Ctrl+C” the area
– open a new document “Ctr+N”
– paste the selection into it “Ctrl+V”
– choose “edit” “define pattern” or “define brush”
– choose a name

mention that you cant use the brush in a bigger size as you created, without scaling.

hope thats what your looking for, greetz

[John Morrison]

thanks I worked through it, and I was using the wrong term, I wanted to define custom shape. I wound up using the pen tool to trace the calligraphy, created a vector mask from the current path then the option to define custom shape was made available. In the future I’ll try to be less vague