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Creating custom icons

Creating custom icons - SketchBook Pro Tutorial

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Creating custom icons

In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a custom icon for a brush. So the first rule is that we have to create an image size of 36x36. So let's just change this, and I'm going to switch off key proportions. I'm going to go to 36 on this side, on the height, I'm going to say OK. So let's zoom out on that. I am just going to create a very simple shape here. So I am going to open up symmetry. Let's go to our line tool. And let's just create something like this. Put a couple of strokes in there to get it very dark. Switch off symmetry and switch off this option here. Now the next thing to do is to make our background transparent. Now we're going to go up to File > File Save as, and the location we want to go into is the Username > Appdata > Roaming > Autodesk > SketchBook Pro 7.0 > Brush Preset Icons. Let's change this to a PNG. And we're just going to call this New. We're going to say save to that. Let's open up a brand new document. And let's go through the process of…

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