Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: Brushes Vs Patterns
Hey everyone
Hope you’re rosey, I was wondering if someone could shed some light on a dilemma.
I often create brushes to use as a form of ‘image stamp’, sampling an aspect of an image and then recreating it as a brush to work a bit like a rubber stamp.
However now I’m working with larger canvases & the brushes sampling limit means that they are now redundant (as there far to small), is there a tool that I can use as a form of ‘sampled stamp’ on an image. It is possible to create the effect via layers but that makes the image huge and it takes so long.
I know there is the option to define and use a pattern over a certain size, but unless I’m using it wrong you cannot use this in the same way as a sampled brush.
If anyone can shed any light it would be greatly appreciated.
To but it simply how do you create something that lets you paint on a large scale the equivalent of kiddy potato shape stamping.
First, create the tile you want to stamp. then, edit > define pattern, as you pointed out earlier.
If you want the pattern to take up your entire canvas, create a new fill layer, and go to the pattern ovelay thinge in the blending options. Your defined pattern will appear in the pattern drop-down. Of course, you can do this on any layer, not just fill layers. Another handy thing, while you still have the layer styles open, you can click-drag on your image to mave the tile around and get it exactly where you want it.
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Thanks for the reply, i've tried using the patern tool like you mentioned (usingf the pattern stamp to apply is that corect), however it still seems to be Limited by the maximun brush size 2500.
Chances are i'm using this wrong, i've attached an image below that shows what i'm trying to do (the stamping in the top 1/3 on the top 3rd), this was done on a much smaller canvase, so no problem, but the one i'm working on at the moment is huge
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:55 am Post subject:
I cant really think of how you could make it bigger, either use the stamp or pattern tools, but that is a very very cool image, did you do it yourself from scratch? _________________ www.jerseyhacker.co.uk
I didn't say anything about using a brush at all. Let's say you want a stamp to be repeated over a certain area of an image. Grab the pen or lasso and draw a rough outline of the are you want the stamp on. Fill it on a new layer. then right-click on the layer in the palette, and go to blednig options. Choose pattern overlay, and from the pattern chooser drop-down click your patter. That's the pattern you made by going to edit > define pattern. You can scale the psttern around and drag it to get it exactly where you want. Then, erase or add to the layer so you don't have any of those little stamps cut in half. Last, but definately not least, put the layer's fill to 0%. that should do it. _________________ brush your hair and comb your teeth
Cheers for the compliment Jersey, yup genrated from scrath (although some of the background is sampled from an ancient computer mag).
Thanks for the help Gallo, the reason why i thought the pattern was somhow tied to the brush palette is that no matter who large my saple image is as soon as it's applied onto the main canvase it's tiny. Had a go at your sugestion, see where your comming from, although i can't seem to find a way of selecting a diferent pattern when in the layer Blending window. Also it's still working in layers so the same problem might continue that the file size will get to big, plus its not the most intuitive method of stamping, but perhaps i'm missing somthing.
That stamp tool sounds inersting how dose that work, basically i would love on a large scale image to have a tool that i can apply an image BANG BANG BANG so to speak, and alther the colour and size as i see fit.
cheers for this help, it really is muchly appriciated
regarding filesize... using a layer style on a masked solid colour layer will give you the most miniscule filesize you could hope for. Musch smaller than having an actual pixel layer that you'd stamped on.
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