Brushes with more than one colour?

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katieanddave77
Jun 12, 2005
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Hi I’m using CS2 and I’m wanting to make a custom brush with flowers – what I’d like to do is have four or five different flower photos and make the flowers themselves into a brush so that I can simply paint with a brush and full colour
flowers will appear as I paint.

I’ve seen it done before, but I just can’t remember what it’s called or how to do it!

Many thanks!
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LenHewitt
Jun 12, 2005
You can create a pattern and use the pattern stamp tool, but you can’t have multi-coloured brushes
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katieanddave77
Jun 12, 2005
hmm I was sure I’d seen it – it must be in a different program – is there any plugins that I could buy to do this?!
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dave_milbut
Jun 13, 2005
I THINK paint shop pro does it. not quite the same as a plugin <g> but about the same price. you could use it for those times you need the multicolored brush. maybe some psp users could chime in… i think we have a few lurking about… 🙂
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goodidea1950SPAM-SPAM
Jun 13, 2005
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: hmm I was sure I’d seen it – it must be in a different program – is there any plugins that I could buy to do this?!

Painter or the lite version does this, I think.
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Jake_Hannam
Jun 13, 2005
Corel Painter has the multi-color brush capability you are looking for.

<http://www.corel.com>

You can have the brushes pick up more than one color (just as a real brush on a palette). However, I think you are looking for something to paint complete flowers? Painter has this capability in its Nozzles.

Hope this helps.

Jake
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tmalcom
Jun 13, 2005
Deluxe Paint on the Amiga had multicolor brushes in 1985. Makes you wonder why Photoshop doesn’t.
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Christine_Krof_Shock
Jun 13, 2005
Photoshop is not a dedicated "paint" program, it’s an image editor…Painter is what you want for complex digital painting as you can do multicolored brushes, impasto that looks like impasto and the image hose to spray images on a canvas…
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katieanddave77
Jun 13, 2005
eh?!?! so why does it have monocolour brushes then?
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E._Palmaroy
Jun 13, 2005
katieanddave77,

Would you feel better about all of this if they were to take the mono-color brushes out of the program?

You mean why does Photoshop have them if it is promarily an image editor. My guess would be that originally, it was for photo editing and touch-ups… Most of the tools such as dodge and burn, erase and so on work as brushes… Photoshop has slowly picked up tools for other tasks over the years but Christine was right when she said it is not a dedicated “paint” program. It is an image editor with some paint functions added to it. If you want multi-colored brushes, you might try adding it to feature requests….

BTW, one of the brush presets in the brush pallet is “color dynamics”. You might try playing around with that a little bit for different colors in a single stroke.

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