Patent ID: 7079153

Claim:
A mark-making tool managing system for managing mark-making tools for a graphic computer software application, the mark-making tool managing system comprising: a mark-making tool handler having adjustable controls, each mark-making tool having a definition including a set of control values based on which the mark-making tool handler controls the mark-making tool; a mark-making tool creator for providing one or more sets of control values to the mark-making tool handler to create one or more new mark-making tools, the mark-making tool creator having: a donor handler for receiving definitions of selected donor mark-making tools, each definition having a set of donor control values defining the respective donor mark-making tool; and a control value synthesizer for interpolating the sets of donor control values of the selected donor mark-making tools to generate one or more new sets of control values, and providing the new sets of control values to the mark-making tool handler; and a user interface for presenting to a user the new mark-making tools and sample marks made by the new mark-making tools.