BrushTalk

If you have not attempted masking in Painter, here there is a demo movie tutorial on this lynda.com page…click on the Layer Masks link in the Getting Started section.
As an aid to editing the Layer mask, I have put together a script library containing macro scripts to set the main and additional colors in the [...]

Personally, I rarely use the Brush Creator dialogue when developing new Painter brushes, preferring to create a new 800 x 800 pixel document to use as my test pad. I then show the Brush Controls palettes from the Window menu and start experimenting.
Although my canvas occupies a large portion of the screen, it soon becomes [...]