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3. Basics of PhotoLine / 3.3 User Interface Elements

### 3.3.3 The Brush Field

The brush field shows the brush, which will be used for drawing tools:

PhotoLine is distinguishing between 2 kinds of brushes:

- Geometric brushes
Geometric Brushes are oval or rectangular. They can be edited very flexibly with the brush editor (see chapter 3.5).
- Free brushes
Free brushes are normal gray images. Therefore, it is possible to drag any kind of layer onto a brush field to create a custom brush. The layer will be converted automatically to a gray picture. The inverse case is possible, too: On Windows, it can be dragged to a free part of the main window to create a document with the pattern. On macOS, you have to drag the pattern to a non-PhotoLine window and to hold Alt.

A double click allows editing the current brush.