How to use multiple colors in brushes?

[fairlady1212]

Hi Everyone,


I've searched for hours on how to color brushes. Specifically "real" brushes, ie brushes of real flowers, fabric bows, etc. Basically, i want to color a brush, after it's been stamped, with multiple colors. I have flatten them and then colored them in using hue/saturation, but with this I have to remove the white background that shows up with flattening, and even so can only use one color. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

[JenniferG]

That is one of the downsides I found to brushes. I haven't tried it, but one thought that came to mind, which is a bit of work, is to create multiple layers and color each layer a different color and then erase the parts from each layer so that only the area you wanted that color is left and then merge it all.

If anyone has a better way, that would be great!

[Marriedin79]

I'm not sure if this is what you're wanting to do ...

... pick your foreground and background colors; change the hue jitter setting and then when you brush it will make a variegated color change.

Look at the "grass" that's under the rickrack on this layout (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58067&cat=500&perpage=90&ppuser=17857) to see what I mean.

[fairlady1212]

Nope, it more that I have a brush, for example, of baby blocks. I'd like to make each block a different color. The blocks are real wooden baby blocks. Basically, I just want to make a brush look like a real picture. I always assumed that's what these realistic brushes were for.

[Lauren]

The only way you could do this is to select the layer once you had stamped your brush and then paint it with colour as a brush in photoshop is just a greyscale image

[ScrapMel]

I am not sure which program you are using, in photoshop, brushes are grayscale, so you can stamp them, then colorize them, used a gradient, etc.
In Paint Shop Pro, you can use tubes, which are pictures and are very realistic. But it is different than brushes. I don't know if that helps at all or not....

[Meryl]

The only way I know to do what I think you want to do is to do the multi-layer way. For example if you have a flowerer, you want pink petals, yellow center and green leaves (assuming you have Photoshop)
~ stamp your image in pink,
~ duplicate the layer, use hue and saturation to this layer to change to yellow,
~ repeat the process changing the 3rd layer to green.
~ Start with your top, green layer and erase (or use a layer mask, better) any parts ~ you DON'T want green ie leave only the leaves and stems
~ Return to your yellow layer any parts you DON'T want yellow ie leave only the center.
~ You should now have a pink flower, yellow center and green leaves.

Unless your image is very fiddly it really does not take long :)