help on brushes

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Seth
Aug 13, 2005
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Hi all, two questions:

1-Im using a scattered brush to create some vegetation. By now i’m doing several layers so i can have each one cast shadow on the one below. Is there a way to have each brush tip cast shadow on what i’ve painted before without using layers ?

2- Brushes are B/W. Is there a way to use a pattern (or a sampled image) as brush, so i can use brush option’s scattering and behaviors ?

Thanks,

Paolo

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KatWoman
Aug 13, 2005
"Seth" wrote in message
Hi all, two questions:

1-Im using a scattered brush to create some vegetation. By now i’m doing several layers so i can have each one cast shadow on the one below. Is there a way to have each brush tip cast shadow on what i’ve painted before without using layers ?

2- Brushes are B/W. Is there a way to use a pattern (or a sampled image) as
brush, so i can use brush option’s scattering and behaviors ?
Thanks,

Paolo
put a layer effect on the vegetation layer
drop shadow
there is also a way to setup dual brushes I’m not sure I remember exactly how, so you can paint with two brushes at once

2 yes
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Seth
Aug 16, 2005
Hi,

put a layer effect on the vegetation layer
drop shadow
there is also a way to setup dual brushes I’m not sure I remember exactly how, so you can paint with two brushes at once

Ok, but this is what i’m doing. This means that that layer will cast shadows, but not every single brush dot; if i make some dots they’ll cast shadows, but if i paint a dot over another, it wont cast shadows on the other dots, unless i put them in other layers.
I want *each* single brush dot to cast its own shadow, even on other dots in the same layers.
This cannotm be achieved by layer effects, i wonder if there’s some other way. dual brush cannot, i already tried.

2 yes

If yes, how can i use a colored (i mean a rush which contains it own colors, like a leave photograph) brush with scattering ?

Thanks
Paolo
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KatWoman
Aug 16, 2005
"Seth" wrote in message
Hi,

put a layer effect on the vegetation layer
drop shadow
there is also a way to setup dual brushes I’m not sure I remember exactly how, so you can paint with two brushes at once

Ok, but this is what i’m doing. This means that that layer will cast shadows, but not every single brush dot; if i make some dots they’ll cast shadows, but if i paint a dot over another, it wont cast shadows on the other dots, unless i put them in other layers.
I want *each* single brush dot to cast its own shadow, even on other dots in
the same layers.
This cannotm be achieved by layer effects, i wonder if there’s some other way. dual brush cannot, i already tried.

2 yes

If yes, how can i use a colored (i mean a rush which contains it own colors,
like a leave photograph) brush with scattering ?

Thanks
Paolo
I don’t know why dual brush would not work, it’s a tool I rarely use so maybe I am not the one to answer this
anyone got an idea??

2- I have downloaded a brush from Exchange that sprays little butterflies in multiple colors so there must be a way to make brushes with more than one color.
I also think there is a way to use the pattern clone to "paint" with a pattern.
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Seth
Aug 16, 2005
2- I have downloaded a brush from Exchange that sprays little butterflies
in
multiple colors so there must be a way to make brushes with more than one color.
I also think there is a way to use the pattern clone to "paint" with a pattern.

Maybe you’re experiencing a common brush tool which can vary each tip’s hue, nothing strange.
Each brush tip can have a different color, but a sinlge tip cannot contain more than one color, AFAIK.
Are you experiencing something differetn from this ?

Paolo
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KatWoman
Aug 17, 2005
"Seth" wrote in message
2- I have downloaded a brush from Exchange that sprays little butterflies
in
multiple colors so there must be a way to make brushes with more than one color.
I also think there is a way to use the pattern clone to "paint" with a pattern.

Maybe you’re experiencing a common brush tool which can vary each tip’s hue,
nothing strange.
Each brush tip can have a different color, but a sinlge tip cannot contain more than one color, AFAIK.
Are you experiencing something differetn from this ?

Paolo
no it was each one a different color
I haven’t played with the brush tools much
Now I see how to do the colors
and I could not figure out your idea
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Seth
Aug 18, 2005
no it was each one a different color
I haven’t played with the brush tools much
Now I see how to do the colors
and I could not figure out your idea

eheh.. in fact, each tip of a different color is a common effect, its obtained with "color dynamics" into brush options. What i need is to use a true leaf photo as brush, not a single colored brush. Even if it can change color each tip, each tip will have only one color at time, while i need the leaf to remain a leaf with all its color details.

paolo
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KatWoman
Aug 18, 2005
"Seth" wrote in message
no it was each one a different color
I haven’t played with the brush tools much
Now I see how to do the colors
and I could not figure out your idea

eheh.. in fact, each tip of a different color is a common effect, its obtained with "color dynamics" into brush options. What i need is to use a true leaf photo as brush, not a single colored brush. Even if it can change color each tip, each tip will have only one color at time, while i need the leaf to remain a leaf with all its color details.

paolo
that’s why I thought you could save the leaf photo as a pattern and paint with the pattern clone>?

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